Josh Widdicombe Quotes

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved stand-up.

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've done the Hoboken Comedy Festival. It's cool.

I'd been doing standup since college.

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

Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

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

I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist.

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 moved from acting to stand-up because castings are just about what you look like. It doesn't matter if you can act or not. In comedy, no one cares what you look like.

Little did I know that earning a living at stand-up is the hardest thing you can do. But once I started doing it, I just loved it, and I realized that I was actually kinda good at it, and then that was it.

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

There are comedians that I like. I think a lot of it, you just figure out on your own. It's definitely one of those things that you get good at by doing it a lot. But I like Jim Gaffigan. Patton Oswalt. Janeane Garofalo.

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

When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick's Comedy Stop, so I was going to classes during the day, and then at night, I would be signing up on the lists.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

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

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've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

I always wanted to be a popular comedian.