Louie Anderson Quotes

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing, they know all of these things that you can only learn by telling a story out loud and interacting with an audience.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

My act's not heavy on pop culture or stories, just lots of jokes.

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

I think so. I can't think of anything that requires more finesse than comedy, both from a verbal and visual point of view.

I got into stand-up because I love stand-up. Specifically in stand-up, I love jokes. I love short, structured ideas and a punch line.

When did I become a fast-talking Jew? As time went on, my bits started to become longer, and that became part of the signature.

I don't do stand-up anymore.

I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.

When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, "Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.

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

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

I think, with certain characters, you have to listen. Sometimes, listening can be funnier: the thing you don't say is the one-liner. That's the ying to the yang.

I told jokes badly.

I'm not a good joke teller.

I don't really do stand-up.

Rehearsals are for gags.

I have the improv background, but stand-up is different.

I think comedy suits me best.

Comedy is easy. You have to react to what others are saying and it is all about the timing, the dialogue delivery.

You can't teach standup comedy. You can teach someone how to formulate a joke, but making it funny is different.

The more you work in this business as a comedian, the closer you get to just being yourself onstage, on camera, the more well received you are.

It took me a good eight to ten years to really formulate what I was doing onstage and start to get really personal with comedy. I always really had timing naturally, it was just about trying to figure out how that timing was going to work onstage.