Chunky Pandey Quotes

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.

Comedy has to be built carefully.

Comedy is not about appearance; it's about rockin' a mike. Are they laughing? That's the only test.

There's nothing more difficult to do than comedy.

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

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

When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.

To be really great, you need to be naturally funny in order to stand out. But you can work at it, and find the best vehicle that you have to communicate what you're saying to people.

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

I think the greatest gift your parents can give you if you want to be a comedian is good taste.

Comedy is very difficult. You've got to have a perfect sense of timing.

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 need to keep my ad-libbing skills honed and make sure I'm able to banter with people and treat topics a bit more light-heartedly. But as a stand-up, first and foremost, my job is to make sure that I can write the routine that hopefully people will talk about when something big happens.

One joke coming from one person can land completely flat, while somebody else delivering it in a unique way can really elevate it.

I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.

In my stand-up, I generally improvise from an outline.

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

Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.

For comedy, timing is key.

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

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things.

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.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.