Joe Rogan Quotes

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.

The most frightening thing about playing Dick Gregory is I've never done stand-up before, and I had to learn how to be a stand-up comedian, which was a bit of a challenge.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

No, I never really set out to be a stand up. I wanted to be a writer of some sort. I thought I'd do a bit of stand up and hopefully that will lead to stuff and little did I know it kind of snowballed. Before I knew it I was doing stand up 300 nights a year.

I do standup every week in L.A. at the Laugh Factory and the Improv.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard.

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic.

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.

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

After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.

If I can make a teacher's salary doing comedy, I think that's better than being a teacher.

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

I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

I always tell comics you got to hang with your stand-up.