Alexandra Petri Quotes

I've actually done a lot of comedy.

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.

I tried do stand-up, and I was horrible. And I'll never do it again.

I've always wanted to do a real comedy. I haven't done enough, and it seems silly not to do more, considering the fact that people tend to laugh at me.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

I haven't really done a lot of comedy. It's something that terrifies me.

I never wanted to be road comic.

I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.

I don't do standup.

I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.

I'd been doing standup since college.

We come from a live background of sketch improv and standup.

I know I'm going to be doing standup for the rest of my life.

I wasn't properly performing in Canada. I was just starting out, and when everyone starts out, they're terrible. I'm sure there are some Kellyanne Conway videos of me just really dying on a stage.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

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

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

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

I still do standup.

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

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'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.