Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.
Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.
The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.
I've never been able to write for stand-up.
Stand-up is the kind of gig that'll show you where you're at.
I don't really like doing big stand-up. Whenever I do theaters, I don't like 'em. I don't think they're right for stand-up. I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.
When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.
I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.
I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.