#standup

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time. ↗

— Marc Maron

#being #best #clubs #doing #forever

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days. ↗

— Larry David

#days #doing #i #some #standup

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup. ↗

— Dane Cook

#different #done #had #i #never

I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired. ↗

— Marc Maron

#acquired taste #always #been #handful #i

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#awareness #book #else #everybody #everything

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#brian #comic #disguise #nbc #standup

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#go #house #i #kids #off

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#call #comedy #comics #day #eddie

People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#develop #doing #happy #i #interested

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

#comedians #create #created #demand #easy