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• When I was 14, I told my mother I was going to drop out of high school and go do stand-up comedy. All she said was 'Oh maybe it's better if you just die,' because it was killing her that I was doing this.

  Margaret Cho

  Mother, School, Comedy

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• Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Wrestling, Inspire, Comedy

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• When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.

  Vir Das

  Comedian, India, Bills

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• New York State is giant and has some of the most beautiful landscape on the Eastern seaboard. There is so much history in New York State, from the Erie Canal to the Catskills, the birth of American stand-up comedy.

  Adam Savage

  Beautiful, New York, Giants

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• I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go

  Dan Dierdorf

  Football, Thinking, Hbo

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• When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

  Jim Dale

  Song, Singing, Nine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

  Denis Leary

  Trying, Speech, Comedy

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.58, Penguin

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• When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

  Dane Cook

  Directors, Comedy, Sometimes

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• I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.

  Dane Cook

  Years, Needs, Comedy

  "Interview: Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

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• I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.

  Dane Cook

  Able, Way, Comedy

  "Dane Cook Knows Earl's Dirty Little Secret in Mr. Brooks!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 24, 2007.

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• I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson.

  Drew Carey

  People, Albums, Bills

  "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 think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.

  Dane Cook

  Taken, Thinking, Games

  "Dane Cook Goes for Laughs in Good Luck Chuck". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 13, 2007.

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• While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.

  Tim Allen

  Giving, Judging, Together

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music.

  John Hodgman

  Real, Benefits, Comedy

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Stand-up comedy is tough right now. Anybody can come to a concert, tape you, and put you up on the Internet. You either fight it or embrace it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Fighting, Tape, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Art, Games, People

  "Matthew Gray Gubler: I really won the lottery with this show". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 16, 2011.

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• My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

  Pauly Shore

  Mom, Dad, Roots

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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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• I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Boss, Trying, Done

  "Lunch Date: Rosie O'Donnell". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my agent sent me on audition and they liked it.

  Kevin Nealon

  Beer, Light, Acting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was doing stand up comedy when I was 11, that's how I got started; not because I wanted to do comedy, but because we were broke, living in Echo Park in Downtown Los Angeles, from 1986, I saw the Rodney King riots; my parents didn't really work. But I wanted a new backpack, that's how I got into this business - I wanted a new backpack.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Kings, Echoes, Parent

  "Shia LaBeouf Sheds His Child Image for The Greatest Game Ever Played". Interview with MovieWeb, movieweb.com. September 30, 2005.

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• For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Cake

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• My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.

  Paul Rudd

  Would Be, Esoteric, Comedy

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• It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something.

  Chris Rock

  Special, Done, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

  Carol Leifer

  Jobs, People, Sick

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