Melissa Rauch Quotes

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...

The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.

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.

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy.

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

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

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

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

You're trying your best to make people laugh; then if you fail, they hate you. But your intent's the same. It's not like you're trying to do evil to them.

There are these showcase clubs where 14 guys will go on in a row and people are laughing at everything, and I'm like - 'I can't laugh that much. That's so weird to me.'

When you do comedy, you get impervious to good and bad reviews.

As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.

I wanted to be a comedian.

If you can survive 'Saturday Night Live,' then you're good as far as show business is concerned.

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

I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was always doing gags and voices, so he booked a gig for me without telling me. I only had four days to write it. I did a seven-minute set; the first four minutes were terrible, but the last two were amazing.

Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punchline.

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking.

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

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.

I tried do stand-up, and I was horrible. And I'll never do it again.

I always wanted to be a popular comedian.

Every performer I talk to will, with different words, talk about the sanctity of a good standup show, how it can really feel spiritual. When everybody is laughing, fixed on the same thing, you feel like you transcend yourself.