Improv seemed to replace stand-up, which was very big before that. Stand-up comedy was real hot in the late '80s and through the '90s.
I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.
Marvin Dorfler: Are you gonna stand up there with your thumb up your ass? Or you gonna get me the fuck outta here?
You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'
You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.
Being brave is only standing up when you're afraid.
Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
I'm still standing up there tall and strong every night that I perform.
It is not only all right but necessary to stand up to George Bush.
I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular.
I think it's important that people stand up for what they believe in.
We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.
I stand up for the things I believe in.
I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.
Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight.
Stand up for yourself. Never give any one permission to abuse you.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.
There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it.
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
