If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?
If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup.
I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
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.
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
I will always love to perform standup comedy.
I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot about the TV biz and work on my standup act constantly. It was a dream gig.
I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.
Hopefully standup will become special again.
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with.
This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.
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