Hasan Minhaj Quotes

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

I love doing stand up. I think it's a really worthwhile art form. It's so unique in all the things it combines, in terms of it being philosophizing, preaching, speaking truth to power and basic communicating. It's a good way to talk back to the world.

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

Comedy is second nature for me.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I want to show the world my humor.

I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I'd read the school bulletin to the class, and I'd add activities and make stuff up. It was good, a good 10 minutes every morning.

I think I was always a class clown growing up and a funny kid. I never really knew how to channel that until I got into high school.

Chappelle is incredible. He is comfy on stage and he talks about big things and small things. He's a version of himself. That's what I've always wanted to be and hopefully I still am.

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

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.

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.

Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

I was never really comfortable doing comedy.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

I enjoy my public speaking. That's what I love doing. It's what I'm good at.