Joe Rogan Quotes

I don't really like doing big stand-up. Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up. I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

Stand-up is more of an organic process. An imagined dialogue with the audience.

My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well that you can just sort of play off of whoever your reader is - that's the best feeling at an audition.

I'm not even really a joke-teller. I can do ad-lib and banter, but I don't do jokes.

As actors, we do our best to keep things light and to encourage in the audience an openness to the changing atoms in the room.

It's always the most fun to play that guy who, like, doesn't have a filter - that really speaks exactly what they're feeling.

A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage, and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

I like my messiness on stage, though I watch comics who come at a joke from every angle and I think, 'Yeah! That's how it's done!' But for me it's the audience. If I feel connected to them, I have so much fun, and if not, it stinks.

The best thing about Mick Jagger is how uncalculating he is. He does what he wants to do and it feels right. He's not a dancer - neither am I.

My years on 'SNL' had reconfirmed that what I do best is play for a sort of edgy comedy.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

'Eleanor' was so much fun to write, because there's a brutal honesty about her. She's got no filters and no concept of social norms.

Also I can come up with new bits - people yell stuff out and it's a new subject or a subject that I've been thinking about that I haven't done onstage yet and I'll just run with it.

We deliberately chose a small theatre so that the show was still intimate and the audience would become a part of the show.

At the end of the day, stand-up comedy is like acting when the audience are the other characters that I'm acting with.

I approach my work the way an actor approaches their work. The only difference is that I do comedy, and my job is to make things funny. My style makes things sound like they're improvisational and happening right then and there.

In sketch comedy, wear your character like a hat, not a suit of armor.

I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it.

My monologues aren't always funny. They're generally thoughtful. Sometimes at different levels of aggravation. And sometimes no aggravation. But the pressure on me is not to be joke-efficient when I'm talking on this mic. And that sets the tone.

In my Comedy Club sets, I just work on what is fresh and try to build that show as long as I can. I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff.

I don't like stand-up comedy that requires a lot of props. I really respect people who can walk out onstage alone and with no other tool but their own minds and can make you laugh and maybe even think a little.

I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience.

One of the things about crowd work that's so exciting is when you discover a character in the audience who's interesting or funny, who you can vibe off of. If someone's got a weird job that you can make reference to throughout, or you can bring that person onstage - humiliate them, or celebrate them! You can put people in conversation with one another. The best is when something that they're doing can reflect back on something that you're doing.