#standup

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

— Leonard Maltin

#brian #comic #disguise #nbc #standup

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? ↗

— Howie Mandel

#dramatic #dramatic role #game #game show #host

I would call it a comedy variety show. We have some people just doing straight standup. We usually try to have one musical act of sort. So its just people being funny in different ways, not just sketch, not just standup, not just characters, all of those things. ↗

— Todd Barry

#being #being funny #call #characters #comedy

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#art #art form #been #comedy #form

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. ↗

— Nick Cannon

#because #chance #comedy #fans #get

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