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The thing that stand-up does for you is that it toughens you up a bit as far as the business goes. It's hard. If a joke doesn't get a laugh, that's instant rejection. And that's mostly what this business is most of the time: a lot of rejection.

— Melissa Rauch

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✓Similar Perspectives

The thing about stand-ups is you can't really get good unless you're failing in front of a large number of people. That makes stand-up comedy unique: you need a tremendous amount of reserve within you to take the rejection from the audience, and without it, you can't do anything.

— David Steinberg

Stand-up is successful if they laugh. It's unsuccessful if they don't laugh.

— Kumail Nanjiani

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

— Doug Stanhope

I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

— Jo Brand

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

— Demetri Martin

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

— Alan King

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

— Julia Sweeney

✗Opposing Perspectives

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

— Rob Brydon

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

— Emma Caulfield