Jen Kirkman Quotes

Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

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.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.

I don't really do stand-up.

Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

I took a stand-up comedy class because I'd always wanted to.

I'm a comic; we get hecklers every night! It's really just part of the job.

Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

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

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

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

I do standup every week in L.A. at the Laugh Factory and the Improv.

You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

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.

I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

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

Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.