Ralphie May Quotes

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

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

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

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.'

I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

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

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

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.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

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.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

Comedy is very difficult. I love it because when you do it right, it's the best feeling in the world.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

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.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.

There's an art to comedy.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.

As a comic, you are trying to please people in some way - to make them laugh.

I listen to a lot of standup comics.

I was once doing a gig with Tim Vine; he was backstage, and there was one of those long strings of polystyrene coffee cups. He picked up the whole stack of about 20, walked on stage and then said: 'Bloody hell this coffee's hot!' which I think is the funniest thing anyone has ever said.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.