Blake Griffin Quotes

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

There's nothing like the freedom of being in a roomful of strangers and trying to make them laugh... You either sink or swim. It's like verbal boxing.

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

Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air.

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

With comedy, it's really hard to tell if something's working on the page - you really need the actors to bring it alive. The scariest part is if people will laugh or not.

With silly stuff, it's seventy-five percent confidence. I always tell people that it's because I'm nervous about getting that next laugh and I need to hear it. I always want to condense a joke.

I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.

Doing drama is, in a sense, easier. In doing comedy, if you don't get that laugh, there's something wrong.

I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

I've actually never done standup before.

Comedy is not about appearance; it's about rockin' a mike. Are they laughing? That's the only test.

Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

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

You say a line and you wait for them to laugh, then you say another line and you wait... It felt weird to me. But it's interesting and the energy is almost like theatre, I suppose, with all the people there.

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.

When you're a stand-up, you play in front of 600 people, and it's all about timing. I could never do stand-up comedy; it would be way too hard for me.

I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.

My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.

I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.