Kathy Griffin Quotes

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh.

Oh, I love stand-up.

I've always just tried to make the audience laugh.

Comedy is very effortless.

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.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.

Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.

What I've always wanted to do is be as funny as possible.

Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy.

My primary responsibility is to be funny.

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

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.

I'm really not an actor of any kind. I've always seen myself as an entertainer, someone who makes people laugh. That's all I've ever wanted to do. 'Doctor Who' has always just been me, really.

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.

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.

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

When you're with Chris Wylde, there's never not laughter.

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