Michael Che Quotes

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

Rehearsals are for gags.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

I graduated from Improv Olympic. I used to do standup comedy.

If you look at vaudeville in theaters vamping between acts, it was always jokes written and banter in the moment.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

I love to work. I love doing standup.

I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

I did sketch comedy for years. I've always enjoyed it.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

Cabaret is a great format. All you have to do is sing and be funny sporadically.

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.

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

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.