Jane Levy Quotes

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

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

You don't need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.

I'm probably not very good at rom-com, being funny on demand; I'll leave that to the comedians.

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

I think I'm accidentally funny more so than thinking of it as a craft. I'm in awe of those comedians that know how to hit it again and again and again.

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's funny, but you captured it.

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something common and drawing out the humor, being clever with words.

I love comedy, and I think that's sort of what comes naturally to me.

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

I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes. They seem connected to who he really is. I like watching him, and there is no one better at turning an awkward moment into something very funny.

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

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

I'm not much of a joke writer.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

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.

I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.