Vir Das Quotes

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

A comedian is sort of like a wild animal. It really just depends on where you catch them. Sometimes they want to cuddle up, and sometimes they'll snap at you. But for me, more often than not, if I'm talking to somebody who makes their living in comedy, it'll be a very thoughtful conversation driven from an emotionally honest place.

You come to my comedy show to be entertained.

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

Comedy is very difficult. You've got to have a perfect sense of timing.

I don't usually eulogise about people, but I saw Russell Brand doing stand-up before he was really high profile. I didn't really know what to expect but I laughed until my belly ached.

My father was the funniest man I ever met. He made Redd Foxx look like an undertaker.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.

For me, I've worked hard for people to think I'm funny.

I'll do anything to get the laugh. I love it.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.