Sara Pascoe Quotes

I'm not a fan of stand-up comedy, personally. But some of them are incredibly skilled.

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

The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you do, there's two people that are going to walk out of there hating you.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.

I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny because people tell me I am, but when I watch myself, it doesn't make me laugh. Does that make sense? Because I know the jokes, and to me, I feel like I'm pulling the wool over people's eyes. And there are probably people who do not enjoy what I do.

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

I didn't really want to be a comedian.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

I always tell comics you got to hang with your stand-up.

I do not have a good control of running sight gags. I laugh like hell when I see them, but I don't know how to invent those jokes.

If you're hired to be a funny person, you have to trust your judgment but also be open because sometimes you think something's funny, and the next day you read it and go, 'Oh, my God.'

I'm always blown away by stand-ups. I'm blown away by people like that who are craftspeople at comedy.

There's an elusive element to comedy, but nobody gets it for free. That's why comedians seldom criticise each other.

When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or four years, they're doing an impersonation of a stand-up. This is what I think a stand-up should sound like.

I need to keep my ad-libbing skills honed and make sure I'm able to banter with people and treat topics a bit more light-heartedly. But as a stand-up, first and foremost, my job is to make sure that I can write the routine that hopefully people will talk about when something big happens.