Judy Gold Quotes

That's what's great about standup comedy: the instant feedback. You get up on stage, you tell a joke, if it doesn't work, come back the next day with a better version of it.

Usually the beginning of a story that people hear a lot. For example, "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut" or "My dad keeps losing his car keys." And then I just think of different ways the story could end. "My girlfriend is upset about her new haircut. I don't understand why she's crying. I'm the one who has to get a new girlfriend." Then I try it out on stage. I don't do a lot of re-writing. My jokes either work or they don't. The trick is just to write a ton of jokes.

I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

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 like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

Like every comedian, if I heard a joke that I thought would work, I used it.

I did so many open mics. I would write jokes on Twitter constantly, and then slowly, over time, open mics turned into shows. If you can get a joke to work at an open mic, it's a good joke.

I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.

For a comedian, there is nothing better than watching another great comedian.

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

With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse - that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke.

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

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 found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn't work, you can't force it to.

With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.

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

I became a specialist at comedic one-liners.

I think comedy is one of the hardest things to pull off. You either have timing or you don't, and that's something I don't have for sure.

You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch comedy, you know right away and you can make your changes accordingly.

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.

The bigger the audience, the better with comedy.

Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!

It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.