Josh Widdicombe Quotes

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

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 got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

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

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.

Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

I worked as a comedian for 23 years, 51 weeks a year.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I'll be doing stand-up for the rest of my life. The opportunities that it grants you can't be denied. Stand-up is both the hardest thing I do and the thing I enjoy most.

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

I don't have any writers. I never get a laugh with somebody else's jokes. I can't do it justice.

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and he was so funny. We'd watch stand-up on TV, and he'd tell me the subtext of what they were saying.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

In Manhattan, I often do two or three or more shows a night, so I'm always working on new material.