Judah Friedlander Quotes

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

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.

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

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

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

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

Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

When you're a stand-up comic, you live and die by what you say on stage. There's no director or writer or producer who can tell you what to say and not to say. Once in a while, a club owner will ask a comic to work clean, or not say something, but that's few and far between.

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 think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

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

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.

I'm really good at standup. I always win at standup.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well.

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

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.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

Actually, I think I'm funnier off-camera.

I started doing stand-up in college.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

Stand-up is hard.

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