I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.
I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?
I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.
As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
I will stay in the car until the last minute that I'm going to jump out and do a standup or jump out and do some interviews.
The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time.
I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.
'Something Borrowed' is looking like a romantic comedy, but it's a comedy. It shines as a comedy; it's definitely not just about the romance. It's an honest depiction of the struggle between the characters. The comedy aspect will make it shine.
Women comedy is different than men comedy. Guy comedy is very aggressive, it's about insulting each other, name-calling, and kind of busting each other's chops, and that's not what women's comedy is.
If I'm a game show host, will someone buy a ticket to see me do standup? To do a dramatic role in a movie?
The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.
I always thought that if I got no love at all early in my standup career, or I was god awful, I thought I'd get into psychology.
As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.
For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.
I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.
A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
