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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'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.

That's the thing: when I'm on stage, I don't care; there could be ten people there, there could be ten million people there. But if I'm offstage, I'm, like, counting the people. I know exactly where everyone's standing, how far they are from me.

With stand-up you can just be yourself on stage. And ideally, you can't see the crowd most of the time - it's just lights in your face. But I still have had terrible stage fright.

I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

It took me a long time to be alright with smiling onstage.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

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

I never wanted to be road comic.

Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline.

Nick can get up on stage and just wing it, whereas I would have to be taken to a mental institution.

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

Stand-up. It's the only place I'm comfortable.

I can't remember if I had any stage fright at the first Bowl. But I did the second time.

It's definitely more nerve-wracking being in front of the cameras, although I'm trying to get better at it.

I can't speak for anybody else but myself 'cause I usually get in trouble when I speak for other people, so I've learned my lesson not to do that, but for me, I've been known to pace for quite a while when I walk onstage, and that's just because I'm becoming one with my shell.

I never went on auditions because I would be terrible at it, so I just did stand-up.

I get nervous all the time. The only time I'm not nervous is onstage, which is weird.

So initially getting up on stage I was really nervous, I was like, 'wow, I'm going to be standing there and all these people are going to be looking at me?' But funnily enough it wasn't too traumatic. It felt quite natural because I felt I looked good and I knew how to do the poses.

I'm pretty comfortable in a car to know what I'm doing, and I'm exactly the opposite onstage.

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.

You kind of half-prepare a speech in your head, and then you get up there and then you end up saying nothing that was in your head before you went up there. It's a very weird thing. I never do award speeches too well.