Jo Koy Quotes

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

Chris Rock is a very funny man.

Rory Bremner I have no problem with; he is a satirist, and a very funny one, too.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

I love comedians that dive into politics. I personally don't feel comfortable, with my background, weighing in unless I have a take that I think is funny enough that I would put it in front of an audience.

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

I was about 17 or 18 years old, and Chris Rock's 'Bring the Pain' came out, and I was obsessed. You know, it just hit on everything that was going on at that time and was such an in-the-moment special, and he knocked it out of the park.

The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.

If you've never seen me perform live, I'm a must-see. I'm very funny. I have a different perspective sometimes on a lot of what I do and the world itself, especially America.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

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

My job is summer camp. I come and talk and try to make a TV show funny.

I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

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

As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.