Phoebe Robinson Quotes

I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.

I've been doing stand-up since I was 19. There have been times I've had to step away because of my schedule, but now I'm able to go out and do theaters and not smoky little bars.

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

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

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

I started doing stand-up when I was 15 and doing Letterman when I was 20. So I've been doing stand-up comedy and clubs for over 30 years. That's a long time.

Sometimes in stand-up, you want that late-night set where you get that five minutes, then you want a half-hour special, and then the crown, if you will, is an HBO special.

If you want to do standup, you have to go on stage. That's the only way to get good - stage times.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

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.

I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

When you're doing sketch comedy and you're pregnant, it's like wearing a giant sombrero in every sketch.

Ultimately, I just decided stand-up comedy is a huge commitment, and if you want to be the best, you have to give it one hundred per cent.

I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic.

If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.

The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.

The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.

I did a number of local children's theater plays growing up, but in 5th grade, I had some good times on stage making people laugh as a troll in 'The Hobbit.' That solidified my dream to be on 'Saturday Night Live,' which was hugely influential for me growing up.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

There's an art to comedy.