Sebastian Maniscalco Quotes

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

I love standing at a microphone and making a room of people laugh. That's the part of the work I love; everything else is extraneous.

I know I can get laughs anywhere, in front of any crowd, if I'm given the chance.

Oh, I love stand-up.

You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

I really, really love stand-up.

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

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

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.

Comedy is second nature for me.

I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

I'll do anything to get the laugh. I love it.

The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me doing this. I'm making them laugh.'

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.

I started doing stand-up in college.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

If you are doing stand-up comedy, you have to be confident in what you are doing. That doesn't mean just because you are confident you are funny.

Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I.

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

I'd like to do a bit of comedy.