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I do podcasts for the same reasons I do stand-up comedy. I love it, and I don't care if anybody else gets it. ~ Chris Hardwick
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Chris Hardwick
Frank Fay turned into the most consistent stand-up comic of the late 1920s and essentially changed the art form. Crowds and critics eventually came to accept a man standing alone, cracking wise. No longer did Fay bill himself as a 'Nut Monologist. ~ Kliph Nesteroff
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kliph Nesteroff
In the mid-1970s, there was this huge boom of stand-up comedy throughout North America. I went to see a show at a club called Yuk-Yuks, in Toronto, and I was just fascinated. I ended up coming back for amateur hour on a Monday at midnight and got up there without any thought as to what might come of it. ~ Howie Mandel
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Howie Mandel
It sometimes seemed to him that for love to work, it had to be fair, that he should tell only half the joke, and she the other half. Otherwise, it would not be love, but something completely else–pity or entertainment, or stand-up comedy. ~ Tao Lin
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Tao Lin
You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to do it. It was one of the few things in my life that I knew I was going to be able to do, and I also felt as though I'd be able to do it the way I wanted to do it. ~ Bill Burr
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Bill Burr
He hit the circuit in 1917 as 'Frank Fay, Nut Monologist,' and resistance was immediate. Variety critically stated, 'Fay needs a good straight man, as before, to feed his eccentric comedy.' A comedian standing alone onstage? Unheard of. Doesn't this guy know anything about showbiz? To stand still and tell jokes was a foreign move. To perform without some kind of gimmick was considered amateurish. ~ Kliph Nesteroff
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kliph Nesteroff
Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. I like to work, and I fear that something could fall through. You know what they say: 'The show must go off.' ~ Joy Behar
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Joy Behar
I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I did a stand-up comedy camp at the Laugh Factory, and I started out on Nickelodeon. ~ Amanda Bynes
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Amanda Bynes
I can't imagine being a woman in the world of acting, like where you age starts to weigh you down - you go from being attractive to where they [directors] decided you're out ... I feel like with stand-up comedy, it doesn't matter if I've gotten fatter. ~ Jim Jefferies
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Jim Jefferies
I got lucky. I won the San Francisco Stand-Up Comedy Competition in 1977 while I was still at San Francisco State. ~ Dana Carvey
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Dana Carvey
I usually have sex to my stand-up comedy album. Power move. ~ Jeff Ross
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Jeff Ross
The two things I understand best are stand-up comedy and martial arts. And those things require an ultimate grasp of the truth. You have to be objective about your skills and abilities to compete in both. ~ Joe Rogan
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Joe Rogan
The whole acting and Hollywood [thing], it's just work to me. Stand-up comedy ruins you so badly for doing television. I don't really need to be known anymore than I am. The slight sliver of fame I do have is hard to deal with. If I was actually well-known - I don't even know what to say to people who are at my show when I walk into the venue, much less having waitresses in diners asking for my autograph. ~ Doug Stanhope
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Doug Stanhope
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion. ~ Mike Birbiglia
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Mike Birbiglia
Sahl was never a great comic. His nervous, jabbing, keep-them-off-balance delivery was the strategy of a man who was not comfortable in front of an audience. His creative method -- a rapid scanning of the day's output of newspapers, magazines, and radio broadcasts -- was a recipe for superficiality or, at best, the kind of quick, shallow laugh triggered by a topical allusion. Sahl was always devoid of the two basic ingredients of great humor: imagination and soul. He could make fun of the latest Hollywood movies. He could stab at the pieties of his own class. He could take an abrupt insight into politics or wold events and phrase it neatly into a gag. What he could never do was suggest a world of living, breathing people behaving in ridiculous yet recognizably human patterns. ~ Albert Goldman
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Albert Goldman
DID STAND-UP COMEDY for eighteen years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success. ~ Steve Martin
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Steve Martin
I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They're hip enough to know they shouldn't trust me. I'm just doing stand-up comedy. ~ Dennis Miller
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Dennis Miller
I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes. ~ Felipe Esparza
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Felipe Esparza
My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric. ~ Paul Rudd
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Paul Rudd
When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man. ~ Sam Kinison
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Sam Kinison
I found a gray hair one of my testicles the today. No, it wasn't mine, but it's frightening. ~ Dave Attell
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Dave Attell
I've a belt that I have worn for every single stand-up comedy session since I was 19. I fear if I ever lose it, my career would crumble. That's my one OCD. ~ Vir Das
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Vir Das
Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads. ~ Denis Leary
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Denis Leary
I don't know if you've noticed, but our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking at itself in the mirror. ~ Lewis Black
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Lewis Black
On MySpace ... the whole demographic of the stand-up comedy fan has changed. It's like an indie band thing. People think they've discovered you. ~ Jim Gaffigan
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Jim Gaffigan
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. ~ Dwayne Johnson
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Dwayne Johnson
My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic. ~ Pauly Shore
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Pauly Shore
I went to the juice isle, I learned something. Cranberries are taking over everything. What do you got, apples? Put some cranberrise in there, make it 50/50. Cran-apple. Grapes? Cran-grape. Mangos? Cran-mango. Pork chops? Cran-chop! ~ Brian Regan
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Brian Regan
I think of a lot of comedy being watched alone, for some reason. It's surprising to me that people are getting together to watch stand-up comedy. ~ Gary Gulman
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Gary Gulman
It's weird with stand-up comedy. It doesn't really translate worldwide. I want to figure out how do I make it worldwide. Do a special in Africa. Can't beat that. Pull that off, then I will have done something. ~ Chris Rock
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Chris Rock
A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced. ~ Tracey Ullman
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Tracey Ullman
I always get a little bit pissed off when stand-up comedy is not recognised as being as good a craft as being an actor. We give Oscars to people and it's like, 'Aw, this person is the greatest person on earth', but being an actor is pretty easy in comparison to stand-up comedy. It's no surprise that several stand-up comics have gone on to become great actors. I don't know any great actors that have gone on to become great stand-up comics. ~ Jim Jefferies
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Jim Jefferies
Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else. ~ Bill Burr
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Bill Burr
I want my rockstars dead. ~ Bill Hicks
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Bill Hicks
I just liked stand-up comedy so much. I used to memorize Bill Cosby albums and other people's albums, George Carlin, Flip Wilson. ~ Drew Carey
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Drew Carey
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. ~ Steve Martin
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Steve Martin
Stand-up comedy is a lot about amplifying emotions and situations; movie acting has a lot to do with mellowing things down and making them subtle. The transition was almost terrifying because of the magnitude of change. ~ Vir Das
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Vir Das
When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me. ~ Dean Norris
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Dean Norris
Fretting makes us important. Say you're an adult male and you're skipping down the street whistling "Last Train to Clarksville." People will call you a fool. But lean over to the person next to you on a subway and say, "How can you smile when innocents are dying in Tibet?" You'll acquire a reputation for great seriousness and also more room to sit down.
...Being gloomy is easier than being cheerful. Anybody can say "I've got cancer" and get a rise out of a crowd. But how many of us can do five minutes of good stand-up comedy? ~ P. J. O'Rourke
Stand Up Comedy quotes by P. J. O'Rourke
I mean, there's an aspect I've always said that is - it's, you know, it's not poetry but it's kind of like it. It's not song lyrics but it's kind of like song lyrics. It's not rap but it's kind of like rap. And it's not stand-up comedy but it is kind of like stand-up comedy. It's all those things together. ~ Quentin Tarantino
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Quentin Tarantino
I do some of my best stand-up comedy during sound checks. ~ Madonna Ciccone
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Madonna Ciccone
Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying. ~ Bryan Callen
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Bryan Callen
I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game. ~ Dane Cook
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Dane Cook
There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality. ~ Kevin Hart
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kevin Hart
I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing. ~ Mary Lynn Rajskub
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Mary Lynn Rajskub
You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out. ~ Brion James
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Brion James
I think it's nice if someone respects whatever their endeavor is, whether it's dance or art or stand-up comedy, to not assume that they're gonna be an overnight sensation, that it's this great craft that takes a lot of hard work to get good at. ~ Adrian Tomine
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Adrian Tomine
I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and with no other tool but their own minds and can make you laugh and maybe even think a little. ~ David Letterman
Stand Up Comedy quotes by David Letterman
Universal Pictures presents the Georgie Jessel Story. Ted Bessell is Georgie Jessel. Ted Bessell leads an all-star cast of Ted Bessell, Joey Bishop, Jacqueline Bisset, Whit Bissell and Joe Besser. Besser, Bissell, Bissett, Bishop and Bessell. The New York Times says, 'Bessell is Jessel". The Jewish Press says, 'We like Bessell, but only a bissel. ~ Gilbert Gottfried
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Gilbert Gottfried
Comedians are the most ruthless critics in the world. ~ Amit Kalantri
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Amit Kalantri
When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people are really much more educated on stand-up comedy. ~ Jim Gaffigan
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Jim Gaffigan
The Mob essentially created the term 'stand-up comic' - according to eighty-six-year-old comedian Dick Curtis: 'The Outfit used to manage fighters. A stand-up fighter is a guy that is a puncher. A stand-up guy was a guy who was tough and you could depend on. The Outfit managed fighters and they managed clubs that booked comics, so the term found its way into the lexicon of nightclubs. A guy who just stood there and punched jokes - joke, joke, joke - he was a stand-up comic. ~ Kliph Nesteroff
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kliph Nesteroff
Bob Hope was a blackface comedian. He abandoned it only because he was late for a gig: 'I missed the streetcar to this theater one night and I didn't have time to put the blackface on. Mike Shea, who booked all the theaters, said, "Don't ever put that stuff on your face anymore because your expressions after a joke are priceless. ~ Kliph Nesteroff
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kliph Nesteroff
A talk show is about having a look at a famous face, a bit of stand-up comedy, knockabout stuff - an interview is what Barbara Walters or Connie Chung does in the States, in-depth, done properly. ~ Terry Wogan
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Terry Wogan
Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof. ~ Mark Leyner
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Mark Leyner
No small part of the club's audience consisted of would-be comics, as well as the leading comics of the day. In fact, there were so many gagsters around that it was difficult to know who was part of the act and who was just sitting in. ~ Kliph Nesteroff
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kliph Nesteroff
Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't treat it like a child or a god, which some people do. This might just be in America, but 'stand-up comedy' is something very particular that I don't particularly relate to. ~ Bo Burnham
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Bo Burnham
I started to do a study on how not to do stand-up comedy. Yeah, it's lonely work. You die, you die alone. It's you, the light, and the audience. If you win, you win big. If you lose, you lose big time. ~ Jim Varney
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Jim Varney
I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go ~ Dan Dierdorf
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Dan Dierdorf
After you have loss in your life and after you experience something like losing your parents, the greatest gift of that was it prepared me for [anything]. Nothing else is as scary, and certainly stand-up comedy is not as scary as sitting there with your mom and having to have last conversations and things like that. It's heavy stuff, but it's enlightening because it makes me think I shouldn't be afraid of sharing ideas and thoughts with people. It's the yin and the yang of life. ~ Dane Cook
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Dane Cook
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not. ~ Keenen Ivory Wayans
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Keenen Ivory Wayans
When I was 14, I told my mother I was going to drop out of high school and go do stand-up comedy. All she said was 'Oh maybe it's better if you just die,' because it was killing her that I was doing this. ~ Margaret Cho
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Margaret Cho
Stand-up comedy is a sickness. Who wouldn't want a room full of people laughing and screaming at you just because of who you are? Nothing is as good, except maybe having a baby. ~ Howie Mandel
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Howie Mandel
I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me. ~ Vir Das
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Vir Das
On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did. ~ Bill Hicks
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Bill Hicks
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks. ~ Mike Nichols
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Mike Nichols
People need to write articles and they need to have angles in them and I'm grateful when people are doing articles, but I always say there's not a great mystery to stand-up comedy. ~ Jim Gaffigan
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Jim Gaffigan
Frank Fay [...] became renowned as the first of the great comic emcees - and in many minds the first stand-up comedian. ~ Kliph Nesteroff
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kliph Nesteroff
I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn't love them. ~ Jerry Seinfeld
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Jerry Seinfeld
For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going. ~ Jim Gaffigan
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Jim Gaffigan
I'm lucky enough to have two different platforms to perform on - I do stand-up comedy, and I have 'SNL.' That's where I make my most controversial statements because I can explain myself and I'm in control of the microphone, as opposed to Twitter, where it's in the hands of the reader. ~ Michael Che
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Michael Che
When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer. ~ Dane Cook
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Dane Cook
I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything! ~ Rosie O'Donnell
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Rosie O'Donnell
The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware of it, and Monty Python used to be on PBS at weird hours, so I used to try to watch that. And I loved George Carlin on SNL, that was the first stand-up I ever really remember seeing on TV. And then Steve Martin. I guess I was in fifth or sixth grade when Steve Martin showed up, and he was instantly my idol. And Richard Pryor around the same time too, I sort of became aware of him, though I don't remember the first time I saw him. ~ Louis C.K.
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Louis C.K.
I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium. ~ Matthew Gray Gubler
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Matthew Gray Gubler
Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work. ~ Kevin Hart
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kevin Hart
For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy. ~ Kevin Hart
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kevin Hart
As a live stand-up comedy performer, I have the benefit of choosing real entrance music. ~ John Hodgman
Stand Up Comedy quotes by John Hodgman
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it. ~ Eugene Chadbourne
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Eugene Chadbourne
I was a very special child. I did stand-up comedy. I did it all. My family didn't understand. 'Aren't you tired?' I'm like, 'No.' I'm like an insomniac, I hardly sleep, I'm always on the move. ~ Alessandra Torresani
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Alessandra Torresani
When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it. ~ Vir Das
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Vir Das
I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos. ~ Joy Behar
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Joy Behar
I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse. ~ Robert Klein
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Robert Klein
I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations. ~ Lucas Neff
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Lucas Neff
Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. ~ Sam Kinison
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Sam Kinison
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley. ~ Kevin Spacey
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kevin Spacey
Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it. ~ Kevin Hart
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kevin Hart
Stand-up comedy is like the lowest medium in all of show business in levels of respect. ~ Chris Rock
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Chris Rock
I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it. ~ Dane Cook
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Dane Cook
To me, being brave is an element that is so important with stand-up comedy. It's not essential. There are many comics who were just funny, and that's fine, too. But that's never been what I was trying to do in comedy. I was always trying to do something that involved not pandering to the audience. ~ Bill Maher
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Bill Maher
Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy. ~ Russell Peters
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Russell Peters
She had taken it into her head that she was unappreciated by her family, misunderstood, uncared for.
When she went to bed at night she used to conjure up a pathetic scene of her death-bed, when too late her family had learned her worth. She would lie and blink at the patch of light made on the ceiling by Dolly's wash-stand candle, her throat swelling with self-pity.
...She went further still one night, and actually buried herself in an oak and silver coffin. ~ Ethel Turner
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Ethel Turner
Since this often seems to come up in discussions of the radical style, I'll mention one other gleaning from my voyages. Beware of Identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics. I remember very well the first time I heard the saying "The Personal Is Political." It began as a sort of reaction to defeats and downturns that followed 1968: a consolation prize, as you might say, for people who had missed that year. I knew in my bones that a truly Bad Idea had entered the discourse. Nor was I wrong. People began to stand up at meetings and orate about how they 'felt', not about what or how they thought, and about who they were rather than what (if anything) they had done or stood for. It became the replication in even less interesting form of the narcissism of the small difference, because each identity group begat its sub-groups and "specificities." This tendency has often been satirised - the overweight caucus of the Cherokee transgender disabled lesbian faction demands a hearing on its needs - but never satirised enough. You have to have seen it really happen. From a way of being radical it very swiftly became a way of being reactionary; the Clarence Thomas hearings demonstrated this to all but the most dense and boring and selfish, but then, it was the dense and boring and selfish who had always seen identity politics as their big chance.
Anyway, what you swiftly realise if you peek over the wall of your own immediate neighbourhood or envi ~ Christopher Hitchens
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Christopher Hitchens
When we stand up for what we believe in - for what's right - there is always a chance that we risk the very things we fight for: our safety, our lives, our freedom. But if we stand down, the risk is definite. ~ Kelseyleigh Reber
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Kelseyleigh Reber
I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy ... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody ... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics ... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form ... I'm sure of it. ~ Paul Mooney
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Paul Mooney
These people go on to tell us that mobile phones will cook our children's ears, that long-haul flights will fill our legs with thrombosis and that meat is murder. They want an end to all deaths – and it doesn't stop there. They don't even see why anyone should have to suffer from a spot of light bruising.
Every week, as we filmed my television chat show, food would be spilt on the floor, and every week the recording would have to be stopped so it could be swept away. 'What would happen,' said the man from health and safety, 'if a cameraman were to slip over?' 'Well,' I would reply, 'he'd probably have to stand up again. ~ Jeremy Clarkson
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Jeremy Clarkson
Be strong, know who you are, no be shame, stand up, e ala e. ~ Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
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. ~ Sidney Blumenthal
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Sidney Blumenthal
That afternoon, I went to Henry with a suggestion.
Michael and Graham were still ill. But I was feeling almost fit again.
"Why not let Geoffrey and me head up to camp two, so we can be in position just in case the typhoon heads away?"
It was a long shot--a very long shot--but as the golfer Jack Nicklaus once said: "Never up, never in."
Sure as hell, I wasn't going to stand any chance of the summit, sitting here at base camp twiddling my thumbs, waiting.
In addition, at camp two, I could be a radio go-between from base camp (where Henry was) and the team higher up.
That was the clincher.
Henry knew that Michael and Graham weren't likely to recover any time soon. He understood my hunger, and he recognized the same fire that he had possessed in his own younger days.
His own mountaineering maxim was: "Ninety-nine percent cautiousness; one percent recklessness."
But knowing when to use that 1 percent is the mountaineer's real skill.
I stifled a cough and left his tent grinning.
I was going up. ~ Bear Grylls
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Bear Grylls
I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due. ~ Loretta Lynn
Stand Up Comedy quotes by Loretta Lynn
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