Joe Rogan Quotes

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.

Doing comedy was liberating in a way.

I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think.

I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

When I got on Stern I realized that this was the one job where you could be really honest and open, almost like Richard Pryor or something. You can be honest about your life and get laughs.

I was an extroverted kid and performed, like, acting and singing. Then, the older I got, I realized I enjoyed performing things that I came up with myself more and I enjoyed making people laugh more than making people cry or think.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.

When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and I decided to just improv and make it my own. For a second, I felt like Kevin Hart because everyone was laughing. I just continued to do it. Why not?

I never do impressions, but I probably should. People like that stuff.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.

For me, there's a fine line between being a cheeseball and being a good performer.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.

At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird or unexpected and time to think. There's all sorts of things happening and it's great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment.

I enjoy stand up so much because I take time off, and then I'll be excited to go back to it.

I always knew I was quite good at getting laughs. At school, I loved having a ready audience if I made a cheeky remark.

A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot.

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

I'm pretty funny on my own.