Charlyne Yi Quotes

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

Stand-up is what I am; stand-up is what made me.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I've always been an actor, even when I was doing improv and my own version of stand up.

It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

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.

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

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

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

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.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.

I still do standup.

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.

I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.

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

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up.

The thing about stand-up was, I was doing all this sketch and YouTube stuff where I was not being censored and I got to do my own thing, and it was really cool.

When I found stand-up, it was like finding home.