Chris Rock Quotes

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

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.

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

For comedy, timing is key.

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

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'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

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.'

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.

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 know what's funny, and I probably know the best way to deliver the joke. Whether it's walking out of a room, facing that way, facing this way. I just have a sense of that.

Stand-up is hard.

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

I told jokes badly.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.

I'm not a good joke teller.

I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do.

Comedy has to be built carefully.

Comedy's all math, figuring out the timing.

Comedy is one of the toughest genres. It is so essential to get the timing right, failing which the humour can fall flat.

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

You gotta have fun with a song, make somebody laugh. You gotta have character. A hard punchline can make you laugh, but you gotta know how to say it.