I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.
I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.
I was recently voted best standup never to win a major.
There's a weird loneliness that comes with being a comedian, especially standup. Even with improvisers, I think there are certain moments of truth where you feel really, really connected to audiences, and that's when you're on stage. I think there's definitely something inside the personality of a person who wants to be a comedian that's looking to connect at all times. That's where the adrenaline rushes in their lives come from.
I had more material on weather than anyone else, I guess,. . . back when I was traveling a lot on the road as a standup comic, between airport security and the weather. . . I just wanted to be prepared for sitting in the airport.
I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.
I will always love to perform standup comedy.
People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup. ' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
I follow K-1 closely and also train Ray Sefo. My heart is with K-1 and I love the sport of standup kickboxing.
I do longer runs on things, a lot stories. I really like one-liners, I like a lot of different kinds of standup but I've always been long-winded.
For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.
It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.
In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone.
People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.
The person who is most a part of me is the performer, is the standup, the guy who says, "Hey look at me, listen to this!" I do that because that's what I do, I love doing it.
You’ve got to believe you can be a standup before you can be a standup. You have to believe you can act before you can act. You have to believe you can be an astronaut before you can be an astronaut. You’ve got to believe.
Hopefully standup will become special again.
