Greg Fitzsimmons Quotes

If I'm not in the theatre, I'm in an open mic night or doing a guest set at the Comedy Club, or whatever, just trying to develop stuff.

I had some friends that tried it down there, and I went to a couple of open mics, and I just kind of got this... this sick urge to try it instead of just watching it.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

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

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.

I never knew if I would get my own show, but I knew I loved 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.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

Maybe it's because I come from a very utopian world of being a comedian, but I'm used to many live comedy performances going on in any city I'm in, and each of us is trying to be the best at what we do. I don't think of it as a competition so much as a thriving comedy economy.

There are so many really good comedians, and I would never be as good as they are. It's not my calling.

I go to more open mic nights than open mikers.

The minute I started doing comedy, the doors opened.

I think I probably would have gone into stand-up.

I don't know that I'd be a comedian if I stayed in Canada.

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

I'd been doing standup since college.

The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

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.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

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

I've been doing stand-up since '89.