Jo Koy Quotes

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.

Anytime you give a man in a wig a microphone, anything can happen.

I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

I love to work. I love doing standup.

Here's the thing, with comedy - and I learned this from Will Ferrell - you can't be ashamed. If you're doing comedy, you have to fully commit to the joke. Shame is not part of it. If you act shy or uncomfortable about your body, that makes the audience shy and uncomfortable. And in a comedy you just want them to loosen up and laugh.

I don't care about how I look; I'm dedicated to the laughs. You know, I used to be a clown, so - my name was Smoothie the Clown. All the training I had, all my training is geared toward making people laugh, and I didn't care about being cool.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

I was fooling everyone by surrounding myself with funny people. But then I put myself out there - writing my own sketches, going on stage with nobody surrounding me - and for some reason people were still laughing.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.

I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

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

I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the funny part!

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.

I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.

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