Ken Jeong Quotes

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

There's an art to comedy.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

Oh, I love stand-up.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

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

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

I just try to deliver the laughs every time I get the opportunity.

I'll never stop doing stand-up. There's nothing better than getting in front of 2,500 people and making an entire room laugh.

I really, really love stand-up.

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

As a comic, you are trying to please people in some way - to make them laugh.

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

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

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!