Bob Saget Quotes

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

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

I'm like the master of ceremonies being funny, and then sometimes people you're with, girlfriends and stuff, are like, 'God I wish I had the person on stage to be with all the time.'

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

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

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

I never did stand-up. If I've been funny ever, it was with other actors.

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

A lot of people get into stand-up as a back door into acting or something. But I really like writing jokes and telling jokes.

I've been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don't plan on stopping.

I love doing standup, but I love watching it more. Watching people like Michelle Buteau or Baron Vaughn get up and do their thing - that is what comedy can be like.

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

I used to do comedy during my theatre days, and I was good at that.

I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I mostly wrote funny stuff instead of writing what I was supposed to be writing.

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.