Marcus Brigstocke Quotes

It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

Firstly, I will never leave comedy because I love doing it. Secondly, it's the genre that has given me acceptance and immense love from the audience.

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

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

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

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

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

To me, comedy is a great occupation because I don't really worry that much about what other people think of me.

There's nothing more fun than being out on stage and getting the vibe from the crowd. There's nothing like being on a set where you are there to make other people happy and to make them laugh. That's the best job in the world.

I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.

It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.

it is hard to find new jokes. What I need is new audiences.

People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted... it was inevitable that I'd start giving little performances.

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.

You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.