Comedy Clubs Quotes

• Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• Comedy clubs are sacred ground. That's where anything goes.

  Tracy Morgan

  Anything Goes, Clubs, Sacred

  "A Wild Conversation with Tracy Morgan". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. February 17, 2010.

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• Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the '80s, but toward the end of that, in the early '90s, people started doing comedy again in alternative spaces.

  Eugene Mirman

  Space, People, Alternatives

  Interview with Chelsea Bauch, www.avclub.com. February 17, 2009.

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• When I dropped out [from a law school], everybody was disappointed... But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom. Before that, I never realized how much I sought other people's approval. Once I figured that out, I was free to move on and seek the approval of other people, in comedy clubs and showbiz meetings.

  Demetri Martin

  Moving, School, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even though I have fond feelings for comedy clubs, I enjoy the focus you get in a theater. Comedy clubs are a different animal. People are being served nachos and there's a blender going off in the background.

  Brian Regan

  Animal, People, Focus

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• In my Comedy Club sets, I just work on what is fresh and try to build that show as long as I can. I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff.

  Ron White

  Long, Trying, Clubs

  Source: www.tv.com

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• I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week.

  Emo Philips

  Night, Years, Comedian

  "Emo Philips is still ... Emo". Interview with Steve Johnson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.

  Bill Burr

  Nyc, Tuesday, Crowds

  "Comedian Bill Burr, tamer of unruly audiences". Interview with Chris O'Connell, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2009.

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• I'd like to help other comedians and when I get a little older I'd like to open up a nice comedy club that is straight classy, with a straight restaurant and a chef. The whole thing, red carpet, and treating people nice, for people to come back and have a good time. That's the kind of comedy club I want to open up.

  Bruce Bruce

  Nice, Helping Others, People

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• When you're at a comedy club, if you're not funny, you don't work. People will let you know, whether it's by booing or yelling for you to get out of the club. People are drunk or whatever and they'll let you have it.

  Brad Stine

  Yelling, People, Drunk

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• It's depressing sitting at a comedy club all night, waiting to get on to do your five or ten minutes of material.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Depressing, Night, Waiting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Go to humorous events at comedy clubs and watch laughable movies.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Humorous, Events, Watches

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• Nothing against comedy clubs, they work. But when you're sitting with a tablecloth and a candle and an appetizer menu, three-drink minimum, it can feel more like a dinner theater than a live experience.

  Doug Stanhope

  Three, Sitting, Clubs

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• I've seen the end of the universe, and it happens to be in the United States and, oddly enough, it's in Houston, Texas. I know - I was shocked, too. Imagine my surprise when I left a comedy club one day and walked to the end of the block, and there on one corner was a Starbucks, and across the street from that Starbucks, in the exact same building as that Starbucks, there was - a Starbucks. I looked back and forth, thinking the sun was playing tricks with my eyes. That there was a Starbucks across from a Starbucks - and that, my friends, is the end of the universe.

  Lewis Black

  Block, Eye, Thinking

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• I used to see Jim [Carrey] in comedy clubs and tell him 'This isn't going to get you anywhere. What you're good at is that nice Jimmy Stewart stuff.' Thank God he never listened.

  Jane Leeves

  Nice, Thank God, Clubs

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• So I kept it to myself. Then some of my classmates started to come down to the comedy club, taking a girl out, and they started finding out I was a stand-up comedian.

  Chris Tucker

  Girl, Comedian, Clubs

  "Chris Tucker earns, dreams big". Interview with Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2001.

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• 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.

  Jeff Dunham

  College, Years, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

  Jon Lovitz

  Jobs, Years, Clubs

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• I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

  Chris Rock

  Real, Smoking, Cameras

  "Busy Chris Rock Is Just Itching for Dirty Work". Interview with Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. August 1, 2012.

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• A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

  Chris Rock

  Work Out, Trying, Clubs

  "Chris Rock On The Funny Business Of Finding Success". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 8, 2012.

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• I used to go to the Improvisation Comedy Club every night in Times Square. How I didn't get killed in that area either means that 1) God is watching over me or 2) I am so insignificant to God that he didn't bother having me killed.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Mean, Night, Squares

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• I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, 'Well, that may be inappropriate,' but it was great!'

  Margaret Cho

  Teacher, Art, School

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• Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

  Dick Cavett

  Pain, Feet, Years

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• TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.

  Drew Carey

  Funny, Winning, Clubs

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• There's nothing like the energy in a small comedy club room or a small theater when it's going really well. I can see everybody's face practically in the whole room. There's no cameras in the way, and it's just me.

  Drew Carey

  Cameras, Energy, Clubs

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