Comedy Clubs Quotes - Page 2

• I used to go to the Cleveland Comedy Club all the time. If there was a comic I liked, I'd go see him two or three times that week. Bob Saget was one of those guys.

  Drew Carey

  Two, Guy, Cleveland

  "Drew Carey remembers when The Tonight Show really meant something". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

  Ron White

  Rumor, Clubs, Towns

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• When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je'Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.

  Bernie Mac

  Daughter, Mother, Jobs

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• Bob Saget was known, in the comedy clubs in those days, as extremely funny but with dark humor. It was always an inside joke among comics, when he got Full House, it was, like, wow, hes playing this all-American dad kind of thing. That was not Bob Saget. His comedic style is definitely more twisted, and he has an edgier side than he showed in Full House.

  Bob Saget

  Dad, Dark, House

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• Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.

  Aziz Ansari

  Sex, Hate, Dancing

  "Aziz Ansari: The Funniest Tool In 'Parks' Utility Shed". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 4, 2010.

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• When I was a child, I wanted to watch things that made me laugh. It's attacking boredom, as simple as that. I was 19 when I first went to a comedy club - I wanted to do it, so I gave it a try and that was it. I found my office.

  Dylan Moran

  Children, Simple, Laughing

  "Comedian Dylan Moran: 'What am I looking forward to? Incontinence and memory loss'". Interview with Nosheen Iqbal, www.theguardian.com. December 22, 2009.

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• I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Clubs, Littles

  "In 'Egghead,' A New Shel: Burnham Takes On Silverstein". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 7, 2013.

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• If I had to perform in a comedy club I would bomb; I would be trying too hard.

  Henry Rollins

  Trying, Would Be, Bombs

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• I took a job in a comedy club - not doing stand-up comedy, because that's my idea of hell, but in the office - and I went traveling.

  Phoebe Fox

  Jobs, Ideas, Office

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 13, 2015.

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• Man's inhumanity toward man is astounding, and I'm just talking about the lineup at certain comedy clubs.

  Dov Davidoff

  Men, Talking, Clubs

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 16, 2011

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• I think there is more comedians now than ever, more venues now than ever. There are stand-ups who live in towns where they don't have many comedy clubs where they are organizing more comedy nights in bars. I just think this is a fantastic time for stand up.

  Joe Rogan

  Night, Thinking, Comedian

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Some comedians tell nice jokes that you can tell to your kids. Some use bad words - they work 'blue.' If you don't want to hear a joke that's blue, you shouldn't go to a comedy club where a comedian who makes blue jokes is performing.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Nice, Kids, Blue

  "If you don't want to hear an edgy joke, don't listen" By Gilbert Gottfried, www.cnn.com. July 16, 2012.

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• A lot of comedy clubs are set up with people sitting at little tables and you have everything from the way they are seated to them ordering or taking a sip of a drink, these can make a comedian go harder and faster in a club.

  John Mulaney

  People, Comedian, Sitting

  Source: laist.com

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• I've never done a comedy club in my life. It's weird because I don't have the same background as most comics. I don't have a history of going up and only doing eight minutes.

  Billy Connolly

  Eight, Done, Clubs

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• If you tell the reader it's funny, then the audience is like an audience at a stand-up comedy club and they expect you to be funny, and if you're not, they notice. Whereas if you read a regular op-ed about Israel or the family or medicine, you're not starting with the assumption that you're supposed to laugh.

  Dave Barry

  Israel, Medicine, Laughing

  Source: www.writersdigest.com

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• A comic, all they have to do is, if you do something funny in a comedy club and you put it up on you tube, it might get a million hits! All it needs to do is resonate with one person who sends it to their friends, who sends it to other people, and before you know it, it has spread virally and BOOM! All of a sudden that person has a name.

  Joe Rogan

  Names, People, Needs

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Not all comedy clubs or situations are ideal, especially when you're first coming up and I think that's good for you. Eventually you get to express your real personality.

  Joe Rogan

  Real, Thinking, Personality

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I just don't get if you have ever gotten offended by a joke, why would you go to a comedy club? That's where jokes happen.

  Brad Williams

  Clubs, Comedy, Happens

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• "Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.

  Jim Gaffigan

  New York, Hands, Leaving

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• The DC Improv food is amazingly edible for a comedy club.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Clubs, Comedy

  Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. November 26, 2007.

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• I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.

  Sarah Silverman

  New York, Cities, Musical

  "Comedian Sarah Silverman". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.mrt.com. March 27, 2011.

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• Comedy clubs can be brutal. Those people are for real, and if you aren't funny, they aren't laughing. They don't care who you are.

  Marlon Wayans

  Real, People, Laughing

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• I can pretty much guarantee that if I do a show in a comedy club, there will be someone who will come out of the audience and tell me the worst joke ever. It's just a guarantee.

  Lewis Black

  Guarantees That, Clubs, Comedy

  "Lewis Black Is No Judge Judy". Interview with Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2008.

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• If I'm not directing it, I need to be right in the director's ear so we can be talking about this." You do something like use the wrong music, the tone's off, and everything feels off". And I was like, "I'm not going down with this one. I wrote it, but I don't like that play." Then I thought, "Well, no one's producing my stuff, letting me star in it, and direct it at these theaters, so I'll just do them in comedy clubs."

  Jake M. Johnson

  Stars, Talking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I LOVE THE COMEDY CLUBS AND THE CLOSENESS OF THE CROWD. HOWEVER THE MORE YA DO THE BIG ROOMS THEY START TO BECOME YOUR HOME AS WELL AND YOU ADJUST TO THE SURROUNDINGS. I LOVE THEM BOTH. I MISS THE CLUBS BUT THATS WHAT YA WORK FOR TO DO THE BIG ROOMS!

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Home, Missing, Crowds

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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