Ed Gamble Quotes

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

I started doing stand-up in college.

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

All I ever wanted to do was stand-up. It kind of charges me and gives me a rush.

I wanted to be a comedian. And I did that so much in high school, I couldn't get a girlfriend.

I've been doing stand-up since I was 19. There have been times I've had to step away because of my schedule, but now I'm able to go out and do theaters and not smoky little bars.

I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it.

I've done the Hoboken Comedy Festival. It's cool.

I'd been doing standup since college.

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 have always wanted to do comedy.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.

When you are doing stand-up comedy, you are the writer, producer, director, sometimes bouncer.

When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.

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.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

I'm doing a lot of stand-up, but not like when you're living in New York and you can do three sets a night and it's your life, and you sleep all day and you wake up and you eat with a bunch of other comics and then get ready for the night.

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual.

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.