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  • It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing

    Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • So I kept it to myself. Then some of my classmates started to come down to the comedy club, taking a girl out, and they started finding out I was a stand-up comedian.

    Girl   Comedian   Clubs  
    "Chris Tucker earns, dreams big". Interview with Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2001.
  • I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and all that type of bullshit, going up there and doing a flat 20 [minutes]. I reckon I'd have better stagecraft and presence than Jesus. Yea, I'm a better stand-up comedian than Jesus, so I reckon I could go on after him.

    Source: manofmany.com
  • I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

  • I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

  • I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.

    Men   Play   Comedian  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Conclusions are based in time. We live in time. So any definition of success is bound up with time. With other things you can say, "Can I yo-yo? Can I juggle?" Usually you have a pretty small window in which to get your answer. Stand-up is different. You can't do stand-up for one night and say, "Am I a funny stand-up comedian?" In two months or two years you'll start to realize it.

    Night   Years   Two  
    Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.
  • I usually just say I'm a stand-up comedian, but I use looping machines to create ideas with my voice.

    Ideas   Voice   Comedian  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

    Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. March 08, 2012.
  • I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

  • In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own show - no one casts you. You cast your own show as a stand-up comedian. When you get good at stand-up comedy you book a theater and if people show up, people show up. If people don't show up, people don't show up. You don't have a director or a casting agent or anybody saying if you're good enough - the audience will decide.

    Book   People   Comedian  
    Source: www.portlandmercury.com
  • The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • This is a dream come true. HBO is the highest echelon in the world for a stand-up comedian to attain. Throughout my career I've trusted my instincts to lead me down the right path, and I am honored to work together with this network while contributing to the legacy that is HBO.

    Dream   Careers   Hbo  
    "Dane Cook Signs Big HBO Deal" by Brian B., movieweb.com. March 02, 2006.
  • I had to write a comedy set and film a show at the same time. And it's the second time I've been up on stage as a stand-up comedian with untested material. I was saying it out loud for the first time that night. It didn't go how I expected, but in the best possible way.

    Source: abilitymagazine.com
  • Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

  • I was influenced by a lot of stand-up comedians... Eddie Murphy back when he was doing 'Raw.' I watched that so many times as a kid, I can probably still quote the entire thing to this day. Chris Rock. Dave Chappelle. George Carlin. A lot of the guys who were sort of edgy for their time.

    Kids   Rocks   Guy  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • And what is the reaction of the British politcal class? Well the Lib Dems, still think that the Euro is a success! I don't quiet think where Cleggy gets this from, I don't know. Prehaps he is cosidering an alternative career, as a stand up comedian, once he's out of politics.

  • Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.

  • Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.

    Stars   Valentine   Voice  
  • Whoever calls and asks me to do stuff and obviously, with having your own TV show, people want you to get involved. They know you're a stand-up comedian so they're always looking for somebody funny to host an event.

    "Chelsea Handler: Gay rights is no joke". Interview with Jessica Abramson, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2011.
  • I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor.

    Source: collider.com
  • I'm a stand-up comedian-turned-actor-turned-vampire at night.

  • Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself.

  • I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

    "Kevin Nealon On His New Special, The End Of ‘Weeds’ And His Worst Acting Experience". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.
  • I've been in radio, God, twenty years. I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up. Radio was just kind of an accident. I did morning radio in my hometown of Buffalo, then went to Rochester, then Chicago, and then New York.

    Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 22, 2006.
  • I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.

    Interview with Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. August 22, 2006.
  • I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.

    Source: www.citypaper.com
  • You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from Star Search or Survivor or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.

    Stars   Kids   Play  
    Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. May 6, 2003.
  • I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions.

    Source: therumpus.net
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