Josh Widdicombe Quotes

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

My first love is doing my own comedy stuff.

Stand-up will always be my favorite and the most important thing that I do. I view everything else as free money.

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

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

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

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.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

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.

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.

I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

I realize as I get older that stand-up is a huge part of who I am. I think I'll do it for the rest of my life.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

I was lucky enough to find stand-up really early in life. And I'm so grateful that I did, because the second I found it, I was like, 'I know what I want to do'.

You can't just expect anyone to turn comedian because it's something that should come naturally, but not when forced on someone.

That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.

I don't do stand-up anymore.