David Dobkin Quotes

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.

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

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

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

Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.

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

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

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.

Actually, I think I'm funnier off-camera.

Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.

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

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

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

There's an art to comedy.

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

Comedy's all math, figuring out the timing.

Comedy is very difficult. You've got to have a perfect sense of timing.

I think, in a way, the stand-up prepped me for the improv, because I do a lot of riffing in my stand-up.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

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

Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit.

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

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

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

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.