Ray Comfort Quotes

I've done comedy on stage, in fact it is one of my strong points.

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

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

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 started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

I still do standup.

I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.

When I was nine, we'd take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we'd take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.

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.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.

I think comedy suits me best.

My gift is to be funny.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

I definitely enjoyed being in front of an audience, making people laugh, and telling stories, so when I realized I could do all three at the same time, that was it.

Comedy is one of my strengths.

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

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.