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Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.
I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.
I took a stand-up comedy class because I'd always wanted to.
'Stand-Up Planet' was Anthony Bourdain-meets-stand-up comedy.
You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.
Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors.
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
Stand-up comedy is not for the faint-hearted or the thin-skinned.
I was always fascinated by the stand-up comedy shows from my childhood.
As far as stand-up comedy, I got into the business later than most, yeah.
How I've fed my kids over the years is by doing stand-up comedy in clubs.
I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
I'm not a fan of stand-up comedy, personally. But some of them are incredibly skilled.
My brother nurtured the love of stand-up comedy in a skinny little black kid named Tony.
I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time.
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.
I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.
I had been writing and performing stand-up comedy pretty much the entire time I worked at Google.
I don't do stand-up anymore. There are no rules in stand-up comedy. Journalists follow plenty of rules.
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State.
At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.
I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.
I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.
Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed to talk.
I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.
Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.
I used to devour a lot of stand-up comedy in my cousin's basement. He had cable and I didn't, so I went there and saw all the comedians.
Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you 'perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at a wall.
Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.
Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.
While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.
If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.
I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.
I did stand-up comedy for a long time in San Francisco, and then I was like, 'You know what? I'm going to move to Los Angeles and try and make it!'
A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.
When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.
I've a belt that I have worn for every single stand-up comedy session since I was 19. I fear if I ever lose it, my career would crumble. That's my one OCD.
I started doing stand-up when I was 15 and doing Letterman when I was 20. So I've been doing stand-up comedy and clubs for over 30 years. That's a long time.
Comedy comes from tragedy, and being Iranian in America from 1979 on had been quite tragic. In stand-up comedy, I was able to take the reality and exaggerate it.
I have this fantasy of relaxing and doing nothing. But I'm obviously very passionate about stand-up comedy. I mean, I keep doing it. So I must be really into it.