Teri Polo Quotes

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

Stand-up is hard.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

Comedy's all math, figuring out the timing.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I'm a classic example of all humorists - only funny when I'm working.

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

For me, I've worked hard for people to think I'm funny.