Oscar Nunez Quotes

I never wanted to be road comic.

I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.

Stand-up is hard.

I don't really do stand-up.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

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

The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.

I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

Most open-mic experiences I had were okay.

I've actually never done standup before.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

I think comedy suits me best.

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it.

Doing comedy is very challenging, as I am a shy person in real life.

Especially when I'm heckled, that's a sticky situation because I don't defuse it... I really envy guys who have a grittier onstage presence and can really go after someone. I used to teach preschool.

I don't do stand-up anymore.

The hardest part of comedy is writing the jokes, and the second-hardest part is telling the jokes. To me, everything else is significantly easier.

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!