Kenan Thompson Quotes

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

With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.

Oh, I love stand-up.

Comedy is not easy to do - where you make someone laugh out loud in their living room.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

I've been a stand-up comedian for years, and I can be silly.

I like the sound of laughter. I was the guy in the group of friends that would always make the friends laugh. And everyone was like, 'You should do stand up,' so I gave it a shot, and ta-da! They were right.

I'll do anything to get the laugh. I love it.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

You can't substitute the act of making people laugh. It's definitely something that actors like to do.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career - anything for a laugh.

You come to my comedy show to be entertained.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

There's an art to comedy.

I really, really love stand-up.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

It's fun to do something funny and have the director laughing. It makes you feel good.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

For comedy, timing is key.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.