Jim Jefferies Quotes

Everyone tells me I need to do comedy. It's never something that crossed my mind, but to be able to do a true comedy and make people laugh, that would be great.

Jesse has opened for me extensively on the road so I’ve seen him do hundreds of sets. He is always super funny, has tons of material and the crowds love him. Bottom line, Jesse Joyce is a great comedian.

I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian.

I've always been a big fan of comedy and sketch comedy, and I like to laugh, but you can't just be funny. You do have to work at it, and you have to try to know what your role is and when you can insert humor, or when it's best not to.

I did stand-up. I loved George Carlin and Steve Martin.

I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy.

You gotta have the balls to go out there and be funny, man.

I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...

For me, stand-up comedy is a conversation between me and the audience. I have to keep them listening. When I'm making jokes about cake for twenty minutes, I have to make sure my audience is interested and following where I'm going.

As a comedian, you have to start the show strong and you have to end the show strong. Those are the two key elements. You can't be like pancakes. You're all happy at first, but then by the end, you're sick of 'em.

I'm traveling the world, ripping rooms apart with my stupendous comedy.

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.

I never used to tell jokes on stage. Now I'm cutting up jokes all night long.

When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.

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

I will always love to perform standup comedy.

I wanted to be a comedian.

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

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

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

I feel that I'm a stand-up comedian more than anything else, that's my job.

I really, really love stand-up.

I do enjoy Dennis Miller, I do enjoy Chris Rock when they do their political humor, but it's never been my goal... I love relatable humor.