Dave Pelzer Quotes

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.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

I don't really do stand-up.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I don't do stand-up anymore.

I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

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

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

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

I still do standup.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

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

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

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

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

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

I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

It takes both courage and talent to stand up in front of fellow human beings and make them crack a smile, and at the same time keep it clean.

I can't write a joke. I could never write. I do a lot of stories and I call them stories, but they're just comedy recitals on a given subject.

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.