123 Standup Quotes for You to Enjoy

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. Marc Maron

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Hopefully standup will become special again. Marc Maron

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I'm more of a sketch guy than a standup. Matt Besser

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I never liked the glossiness of highly produced standup specials in general - I like it where it has more of a feel of the type of places I usually perform. It seems kind of weird when you do a special to go perform in a place unlike the place where you perform 95% of the time. Matt Besser

I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done. Matt Besser

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From fear to bonding with the audience to getting more open - that's what standup is. It humanises you. Maysoon Zayid

You Fear More Open Audience Getting Standup Bonding

Today, I am a touring standup comic who cannot stand up. Within three minutes, I begin to wilt, lose my balance, and topple over. I can tap dance and run in heels, but I need to use a wheelchair to navigate airports. Maysoon Zayid

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I am a standup comedian who has performed comedy in the Middle East in front of thousands of Muslims. And believe it or not, they laughed at plenty, especially when we poked fun at local culture. The Lebanese loved it when you would make fun of their driving and how, in Lebanon, a red light is just a suggestion to stop. Maz Jobrani

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I remember when I first saw Whoopi Goldberg doing standup, and she was wearing a sheet on her head, basically pretending to be this little white girl with long luxurious blonde hair. Everyone can relate to that. It's an oral history of black women's lives through laughter. Mickalene Thomas

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I've done a lot of dramedies in my career. You know, I started as a standup comic, and then the movies that I was doing, like 'Up Side of Anger' were kind of like - they're hard. They're hard to sell; they're hard to get made, you know. Mike Binder

I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I'm just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know. Mike Binder

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started. Nick Cannon

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My standup is years and years of me working things out on the road. I'm really proud of it! A lot of it is about, well... I don't know why I feel this way, but I feel like every special or show I do is some variation on how I feel like I'm not a girl, not yet a woman. Nikki Glaser

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Trying my hand at standup was exciting to me. Rachel Brosnahan

Me Exciting Hand Trying Standup

I still do standup. Ray Romano

Still Standup

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid. Ray Romano

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Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people. Rob Bell

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I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act. Roger Craig Smith

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I used to do standup about footballers; they are easy targets because they are traditionally seen as stupid. Romesh Ranganathan

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The experience of watching other standups is either: 1) you see your mate doing standup and it's really bad and you're heartbroken, or 2) You see your mate doing really well and it's heartbreaking. Romesh Ranganathan

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I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup. Ron White

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