Anjelah Johnson Quotes

I do standup every week in L.A. at the Laugh Factory and the Improv.

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

Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes.

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more call for that one than you'd think.

Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

I love hecklers. They remind you that you are a comedian.

The idea of doing stand-up is terrifying to me.

When I did comedy I made fun of myself. If there was a buffoon, I played the buffoon.

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

Yeah, I do stand-up, my own type of stand-up.

An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

The first impression that I liked doing was an impression of Cheri Oteri's Barbara Walters impression on 'SNL.' I found that I could mimic that pretty well, and people got a kick out of that.

I loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall.

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

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

One night in a club in Boston, I tried the name Roger Duck. No laughs. The next night, I tried Orson Bean, putting together a pompous first name and a silly second name. I got laughs, so I decided to keep it.

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

I'm used to sort of improvising a lot when I do my comedies.

I've been watching a ton of Ali Wong on Netflix. I love everything she does - there's a fearlessness about her.

Because I don't wear a suit, and have such a horrible boy band face, people assume that I'm not doing satirical material.

I'm a comic; we get hecklers every night! It's really just part of the job.

I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they were laughing even though I didn't speak their language.

Kim Coates is really funny. He's a blast. If you have to get beaten up and tortured, he's a good guy to get tortured by.