Phoebe Robinson Quotes

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

Some people use stand-up to get something else in their careers, but it's truly the art form of stand-up I love.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.

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

I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.

I love coming to New York. I think I'm going to come really often here. I need to - for the show, for the comedy. I want to do the shows here and have a beer and hang out with the comedians.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

I was lucky enough to find stand-up really early in life. And I'm so grateful that I did, because the second I found it, I was like, 'I know what I want to do'.

If I want to be a real comedian, I can't let you dictate my material, so I started creating more new material.

When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

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

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.

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

I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.

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.

Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

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

Um, I'm just naturally super-funny. No, not really. I've never been in The Groundlings or anything.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

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.