"I chose the comedy camp because, give it up for stand-up comedy, truly saving lives and building them at the same time."
"Is stand-up akin to an argument? Not at all. Stand-up is a discussion."
"Mitch Hedberg is one of the best stand-ups of all time."
"Stand-up should feel a little dirty, it should make you uncomfortable."
"Chris Rock is for me, I mean, I think he's the best stand-up comedian alive."
"She became the voice of people who at the time were being incessantly suppressed."
"If you listen to stand-up, a lot of stand-up is really just people basically admitting that they're stupid."
"When's the last time you saw a prominent stand-up comedian that didn't name their special like canceled?"
"I did what I think is right. I think it's time for people to stand up."
"Dave Chappelle was able to stand as tall as he did isn't just because he kept standing but Netflix stood behind him"
"Dave Chappelle's Netflix special hilarious."
"Richard Pryor is the best stand-up comedian ever."
"The clutter is winning the war, and I'm drowning over here, and it's not worth it. The crap from Walmart's not worth it, and I'm ready to stand up for myself and make a change."
"Once stand-up doesn't make sense money-wise anymore, I'm done."
"Bigger and Blacker coming a year and a half after Bring the Pain, it's unbelievable."
"Stand-up is like platform diving, you can see if you are or you aren't."
"He reached out, knowing what I was going through, and performed 15 minutes of stand-up a week, all on the house."
"Comedy didn't really know what it was. I knew it was just people telling jokes in a row for 30 minutes or an hour."
"It's the event of what drove me into doing stand-up, really."
"It's because Sergio Pettis has been doing this for so long. He is so comfortable in that stand-up range that he's able to deal with this type of movement."
"I'm so glad you're focusing on stand-up. Oh, thanks. Because your stand-up is... and the only word I can use is undeniable. Oh, thank you."
"There's no other stand-up comic where people are requesting them to tell a 50-minute story over and over again."
"When this Festival first started 12 years ago the entire landscape of stand-up comedy looked completely different in a world where comedians were not nearly as independent and self-sufficient as they are today."
"That is such a ready for stage standup bit."
"If you know what the right thing is and you don't stand up for it, then you're guilty of sin."
"How long you've been doing stand up? This is my first time. Whoa. Wow."
"One of my favorite things about this bag is that it stands up really really well on its own which is a surprisingly rare feature these days."
"The addiction to stand-up is that immediate reaction, good or bad."
"I started doing stand-up again and, like, the traveling, you know? How we hate traveling. Forcing myself to travel, forcing to do stand-up. Like, they say what's behind your greatest fear is your greatest gift. Absolutely."
"The Comedy Store is the greatest stand-up comedy club in the world."
"Stand-up is an immediate gratification."
"I think you came into the entertainment industry as a standup, and I think it's like your first goal."
"You know, I shaved my head when I first started doing stand-up so no dudes would bother me."
"You're a brilliant stand-up, but all of your shows should be called 'Self-pity with subtitles.'"
"You gotta stand up for your truth."
"...the show is about an 11-year-old stand-up trying to go to school."
"Comics are haters, but they don't realize that like Matt, he probably exposed most of the world to stand-up, so you have to be grateful for that."
"It's like every stand-up set I do, I say something that makes me do that."
"When you were out doing standup, you were trying to get a TV show and them little open mic nights you getting 15, 30 people to see you a night you start doing videos you reach thousands in minutes."
"Comedy nerd [__]. This is going back to the roots of what became modern stand-up."
"There was some point where you became a born-again stand-up and that you know, it seemed like you were taken on this ride and then after the ride ended you were like [__] I better focus on stand-up."
"You start stand-up, you're nervous, so you get [__] up, but no, now."
"Every time we acquiesce, every time we don't stand up, every time we don't say something, we are basically conspiring with things that will poison our lives."
"I'm just glad that it wasn't me that said that. I will watch the whole Kings of Comedy to give them a chance to build up to Bernie Mac."
"Bernie Mac, one of the greatest of all time. However, if you want to know what makes a stand-up comedian, body of work. Bernie Mac has never had an hour stand-up special by himself in his entire career."
"It feels like even though I took two years off from stand-up, it feels like I never left."
"You're going to want to see it cuz I'm murdering so hard in stand up."
"Actually, my first time doing stand-up. Get the [__] out."
"So, how long even on stand-up? What do you do for work?"
"It's like being a stand-up version of 'Friends' or 'Seinfeld'."
"yeah no I mean doesn't work sometimes are like I'm the funny one and they get mad they're like you can't be funny I'm funny you stopped doing stand-up that's what happened"
"If being a standup comedian was just doing crowd work, I would be a billionaire."
"What would you do if you couldn't do stand-up anymore?"
"I'm gonna do um a presentation as a stand-up performance so I just did it as stand up for the whole school and it killed and I was like I'm [ __ ] I'm the fast"
"I didn't get into stand-up to be rich and famous. I got into stand-up to get better and see where it can go."
"You know, you see so many headlines that come and go... the people who do stand-up until they get a TV show, then they drop out of stand-up."
"I might do this stand up with you guys just come on yeah do it welcome."
"...the only genuine comedy for my money that I get nowadays is from standup comedians that don't give a [__] and you can't cancel like Bill Burr..."
"I see why Rodney Dangerfield was who he was. He's different than anybody there is. Nobody out there does stand up like this."
"I love that [ __ ]. I love the first seven minutes. I'm just looking for the first seven minutes. You know, I don't know what's gonna happen with the traveling or whatever, but I don't want to quit stand-up as a whole."
"Ralphie May is funny. You know, maybe he's had a few lackluster appearances on the show, but he's a funny stand-up. I would never take that away from him."
"I wanna quit standup. I'm hoping this is the last time I have to do it."
"How you get a deal how you do stand-up and his entrepreneurial spirit about doing comedy."
"That's why standup's cool because you do get that thing from it where it's like all right there's a bunch of people telling me I'm great and it's immediate."
"For anyone listening that might want to think about doing stand-up, Jay is a master class."
"Stand your ground. Just because they feel a certain way, don't mean it's right."
"When you see standup sometimes there is something so bare about that and so raw."
"It's one of the best bits of stand up ever."
"I will never leave stand-up. But when I was starting out, so many comics who were doing great as stand-up, stand-ups, ended up leaving and going into movies."
"I like the new name, you guys rebranded the stand-up game."
"Failure is pretty treacherous in stand-up. It really is because, like, even if, like, we fail, if the power goes out or something goes crazy with our screen or something, I'm failing with this whole group of people."
"You can't imagine, my penis is not going into a vagina, it's going into an outcast, why aren't you laughing right now?"
"Let's talk about whatever, like man, you know, and I think that's just called standup comedy, isn't it?"
"Two words: we are doing stand-up comedy in these locations coming up."
"All the answers lie in comedy, stand-up comedy by the way, get really good stand-up and which I truly believe you can do and then from there all the movie stuff will open up anyway, maybe, but who cares right?"
"I think stand-up is a small art form generally. It's intimate, you know, kind of like jazz."
"I had the best week of stand-up this week did you"
"Classic Karen move, glad the guy stood up for himself."
"Watching him do hours at the Fat Black is like a free class in stand-up comedy."
"Standup is a written joke and you know where the laughs are coming."
"You want to be a great standup, you want to learn how to do standup."
"You've become very successful as a stand-up comic."
"I immediately texted her and just said, 'Finally,' because it really is still such an issue, the sexism and the ageism in stand-up comedy is so prevalent."
"As a woman in stand-up comedy, of course, I have empathy for another woman who's just been in such a man's world."
"I was buzzing about writing 40 minutes of brand new stand-up."
"It's the most honest art form. You're not acting, you're not reading the script, it's your thoughts, your feelings, your beliefs."
"She's the first person who kind of instilled the idea of doing stand-up."
"The reason why stand-up comedy is funny is because there's truth in it."
"George Carlin, people consider him to be one of the best stand-ups ever."
"People on mushrooms are weird hecklers, they'll just be like 'that's very good, yes'."
"I used to do standup... I loved standup till this day."
"If I can do a stand-up show the way I'm speaking to you now, that's gonna be good."
"Standup is really interesting because both parties are getting that service, getting that ministry."
"Standup to me is the ultimate freedom."
"It's amazing if you think about it, the whole stand-up game, how popularized it on this stream years ago and now you just see it everywhere all over the world."
"Stand-up is the most relaxing thing I do."
"It's a stand-up comedy based on real-life stories."
"I knew that if I was going to get anything in this business, it was going to be through stand-up."
"Stand-up had really, really helped me by just shoving you out of your comfort zone."
"I feel like I'm a true stand-up, I really like being on stage."
"I'm really back in love with stand-up, and it's just a real joy to get that buzz back again."
"Nothing will make you laugh like stand-up."
"The energy helps take away the anxiety because stand-up is really, really hard."
"Whoever said stand-up couldn't be cool was right."
"Standup is the bravest thing you could do."
"Doing two hours of stand-up in one day is something I've never done before."
"Stand-up just makes, I feel like, so much like at parties, if I'm in a conversation that sucks, like I can take control of it."
"Stand-up is a conversation; it's a one-sided conversation, but it is a conversation."
"This is one of the most brilliant standup specials or performance art pieces ever."
"After a hiatus, the enigmatic Tucker made a triumphant return to stand-up comedy in 2011, reminding the world of his comedic genius."
"He deserves to be on the Mount Rushmore of stand-up comedy."
"You're a great, great stand-up comedian. You're not like some of the guys who use the Stern Show to be a comedian. You're a comedian number one."
"Standup is unlike any other art form."
"When I do stand-up, I consider the crowd a bunch of friends and we're hanging out."
"That was the best decade for stand-up, really."
"Stand up if you have a boyfriend."
"Stand-up comedy has to be different than movie comedy."
"I've always loved comedy and stand-up comedy."
"I love stand-up, I love all kinds of stand-up."
"I can't write stand-up that way... 95% of my stuff comes out on stage."
"I love what we do, even when I have a bad night, I'm like, 'I love stand-up.'"
"She was able to observe someone like stand up for her and she made the bold decision just be like, 'Hey, I'm not taking this [stuff] from anybody.'"
"Stand up is the most humbling experience you can go through."
"Bill Burr has like four specials that are all gold."
"When you're doing stand-up, you're doing a live performance, there's just you have this animal level understanding of like I'm in front of a big crowd right now."
"Stand up just became this place where I could talk honestly about my life and it was my own voice, my own thoughts."
"The greatest comedian of all time, my favorite standup comedian."
"Stand-up needs to feel conversational."
"Lev is a funny stand-up. For his amount of time, he's been doing it, he's funny."
"Kevin Hart is probably the biggest name in stand-up right now."
"With stand-up, part of what makes it funny is that there's truth in a lot of these stories."
"I've been doing stand-up that way ever since and I've been having more goddamn fun."
"I'm just loving stand-up right now because the world is so messed up."
"Stand-up comedy nights, I got a few jokes about unemployed people... oh wait, none of them work."
"With the real Slim Shady please stand up."
"I love comedy. I love stand-up. I love the connection."
"I enjoy doing stand-up. I enjoy when I'm up there getting a chance to really interact with my fans."
"Doing standup... was so cathartic for me because it was a way of processing everything that happened to me through the lens of humor."