Natasha Leggero Quotes

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

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.

I don't really do stand-up.

I'm always blown away by stand-ups. I'm blown away by people like that who are craftspeople at comedy.

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

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

I've always liked and appreciated storytellers like Garry Shandling and Bill Cosby - more long-form comedy. So starting in San Francisco, watching all these great comics - Patton Oswalt, Dave Chappelle - you get to see them a bunch, and you go, 'Wow, this is where I need to be.'

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

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

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 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.

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.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

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

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

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

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.

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.

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

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.