Shelley Berman Quotes

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

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

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

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 don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I still do standup.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

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

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.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

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

I really love standup because it's something that I've been literally doing for 40 years, which means I'm a thousand years old.

A lot of people think that comedy is sort of a cop out to not wrestling seriously, but I actually would argue that comedy is much more difficult than wrestling seriously because you have to be creative in almost everything that you do if you want the comedy to make sense within the realms of pro wrestling.

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 love doing standup, but I love watching it more. Watching people like Michelle Buteau or Baron Vaughn get up and do their thing - that is what comedy can be like.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

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.

There's something quite joyful about doing comedy which doesn't really need much analysis. I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

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