Greg Giraldo Quotes

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

I didn't really get into comedy until a couple months before I started doing comedy.

As a comedian, you have to start the show strong and you have to end the show strong. Those are the two key elements. You can't be like pancakes. You're all happy at first, but then by the end, you're sick of 'em.

Stand-up is just me trying to be as funny as possible in the most concentrated hour with me standing on stage with no storyline, no plot line, and no character development.

I think Carmen Christopher is going to be massively huge. He's just too funny. He's got funny in his bones, and he wants to conquer every room.

I have always wanted to do comedy.

I think comedy is the most difficult thing in the world, I really do.

Comedy's easy for me now - it's all about timing and the way you deliver lines. I use facial expressions to get the point across.

As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

I like to read, but otherwise I'm just your average, self-obsessed comedian. It's pretty much all I think about.

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.

For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.

I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

When you're a young comedian the first thing you want to do is get a laugh.

A lot of amazing comedians that I've worked with just really follow their instincts and you can't really teach someone comedic timing. And you just kind of have it.

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 hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.

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

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it's my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

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

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

I enjoy comedy and I hope that people enjoy watching me do it.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.