Ed Helms Quotes

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

My first improv was Second City in Chicago. Before that, I worked at - with a partner, doing comedy sketches.

I knew at an early age that I wanted to pursue comedy.

I have always been a comedian - that has always been my job and it is what I want to do for a long time to come.

Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.

New York is looked at as the grad school of comedy.

For me, I wanted to write a book about getting into comedy. That's what I wanted to write.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny.

When someone says to me, do you do stand-up I say absolutely not. I like to think of it as a theatrical performance. With me the show changes maybe five to ten percent every night. Of course, whatever I see in front of me and sometimes I get on a little run about it and it changes the show. And my delivery is such that people who have seen me many times say Gee, I never heard that before. Actually, they have, but I might have changed it around.

I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.

I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.

My background is all comedy. I've been doing improv since I was 17. It's funny, because when I meet people, I'm known as this guy who will punch you in the face or throw you out a window, when I also have a background in comedy.

When I was doing comedy in New York, before I was in movies, I was never known as the deadpan actress. I was just a comedienne.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

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 doing stand-up since '89.

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an actor or even wanted to write sketch comedy. I got into stand-up because I love stand-up.

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.