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 did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.
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.
It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.
When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.
The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
I don't have a specific plan except for as long as people want to listen to me talk, I'm going to keep talking. I can't imagine a life without doing standup.
Metal is easily my favorite thing - Exodus and Anthrax and Megadeth - so it just kind of organically came through in the standup act.
I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.
