Bob Saget Quotes

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art.

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've actually done a lot of comedy.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

I don't do stand-up anymore.

I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.

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

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

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

What they call 'alt-comedy' now is basically what comedy was like in the '80s. People tried different things, and everybody went to the clubs; there was no other place. Then somehow, the clubs became infiltrated by Dice Clay and Carrot Top types.

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.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.