David Copperfield Quotes

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.

I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.

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

At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird or unexpected and time to think. There's all sorts of things happening and it's great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

I come from standup and improv.

Anytime you give a man in a wig a microphone, anything can happen.

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

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

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

I'm a singer and performer in a hybrid show that's standup, music and audience participation.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.

I still find new things every night, which is the beauty and fun of live theater. It's a living, breathing art form.

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

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

Improv is mostly what I've studied.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

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

I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

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.

Being on 'Whitney' is a job, but stand-up is my life. I could never stop. There's an art to it. I love having strangers laugh with me, so as long as I can continue doing that, I'll be happy. Working on a show and collectively sharing ideas with a cast is great, but stand-up is my first love.

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.