Hannibal Buress
Related I failed to get into drama school, and my best friend told me I should do stand-up instead. I was al... MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE When they first start doing comedy, new comics or even people that have only been doing it three or ... ERIK GRIFFIN ERIC ANDRE I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up ... NATASHA LEGGERO STEVE HARVEY RUSSELL PETERS I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people pri... SAMM LEVINE BILL BURR I've been doing stand-up just about every night since I started in 1989. It's my home base. ... JUDAH FRIEDLANDER NICK KROLL JAY PHAROAH DONALD GLOVER I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phylli... WENDY LIEBMAN I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I d... DAVE ATTELL DEMETRI MARTIN STEVE MARTIN My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put th... CRISTELA ALONZO I don't like doing things by halves, and I realised you can't do stand-up comedy part-time. DEIRDRE O'KANE ALEXANDRA PETRI DENNIS MILLER I eventually became an actor, starting with doing stand-up comedy in New York and then theater where... NOLAN NORTH BILLY GARDELL ADAM SANDLER I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I ... AMANDA BYNES KEVIN SPACEY I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my bab... MARY LYNN RAJSKUB On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing t... CARLA GALLO I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I gre... SARAH SILVERMAN I started working full time as a comedian in 2005, shortly after we did the Vince Vaughn 'Wild W... SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man ... ROBERT KLEIN I use to stand up for what I believe, now, I believe in what I stand up for. MARIE-SUZANNE LABELLE (A.K.A MARIE-SUE) I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials. DAVE ATTELL The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into come... JACK DEE I have done a sketch show almost every year since I started in 1975. I have also had a go several ti... LENNY HENRY LIL REL HOWERY When I was growing up, I said to my ex-girlfriend, 'I will not be successful until everyone in H... AFROJACK What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I... DANA DAVIS HANNIBAL BURESS I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It'... CATHERINE TATE MAHERSHALA ALI Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change... GABRIEL IGLESIAS I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing - they had me dye m... HALEY LU RICHARDSON DWAYNE JOHNSON When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,... TODRICK HALL I was 12 years old, so auditioning for a TV show was something I didn't even think really happen... SHAWN ROBERTS MICHAEL KEATON When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used t... J. B. SMOOVE PAUL WALKER Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in ... AZIZ ANSARI The most embarrassing thing for me was the day Bob Hope called me up and I was spaced out on cocaine... ANDY GIBB In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what ... SPENCER KAYDEN One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I'm a comedian, which I'm not. A comedian... EUGENE LEVY ADAM DEVINE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES DAVID DASTMALCHIAN AL PACINO STEVEN WRIGHT I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in s... STEVEN BLUM MICHAEL J. FOX Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most. JUDAH FRIEDLANDER ROSEANNE BARR MIKE BIRBIGLIA ROBIN WILLIAMS SANDRA BULLOCK I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, an... BRUCE MCCULLOCH Have four things going. I have stand-up comedy, two television shows and I'm working on a play. ... JOY BEHAR I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ... RICHARD FLEESHMAN DYLAN MORAN By the time I started doing stand-up, the club scene had died. JEN KIRKMAN By the time I was 10, I was doing plays for Phoenix theater. My first lead role was as the Stinky Ch... ALEXANDRA SHIPP I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things. DANE COOK It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake u... BECKY LYNCH A friend of mine had his own theater company, and he jumped me in like I was in a gang. And once I c... DAVID ALAN GRIER A lot of improvisers mistakenly assume stand-up is awful, because there are a lot of stand-ups in th... KURT BRAUNOHLER Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was i... JAMIE MUIR VIR DAS On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. Th... CAITY LOTZ I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and of... TANIA RAYMONDE I'm the only United States Senator in the country that I'm aware of that's had the far l... CLAIRE MCCASKILL RACHEL GRIFFITHS STEVEN WRIGHT KEVIN NEALON It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. T... AARTI SEQUEIRA My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 ye... DAMON WAYANS, JR. CHRIS ROCK People expect comedy from me but I am not just a stand-up comedian anymore. I act on stage, host ... KAPIL SHARMA Mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so ma... NAOMI WATTS I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do i... DANE COOK But I don't only get recognized for 'Friday the 13th.' I was on a TV show called' I&... BETSY PALMER I had an amazing experience doing 'Skins.' It was the first acting I'd ever done in my e... MITCH HEWER ROSA PARKS RUSSELL WESTBROOK BILL BRYSON I'm used to playing literal story lines and dealing with people's emotions. I had a story where I wa... DEIDRE HALL R.A. SALVATORE Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys ... PEE WEE REESE I did an episode of a show called 'Mind Games,' which is no longer on the air, and it was an... EMMA DUMONT My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to... DUSTIN YELLIN Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then... GARETH GATES BILL BURR
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It's funny - almost every comedian that I started out with moved to L.A., except for my two frie... 
The first time I saw my wife, Marjorie, I was doing stand-up in Memphis, and she was sitting in the ... 
You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you... 
Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what... 
I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials an... 
A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before ... 
I started doing '30 Rock' and started writing 'Mystery Team' at the beginning of tha... 
But long story short, I didn't start doing stand-up because I wanted to have a TV show or be an ... 
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re... 
I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ra... 
I'm a comedian, for God's sake. Viewers shouldn't trust me. And you know what? They'... 
Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that c... 
When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd ... 
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in th... 
When I started comedy, I was a big Eddie Murphy fan. I thought if you did stand-up, you were suppose... 
You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come ... 
I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been ... 
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. 
When I was in improv workshops or doing stand-up or writing comedy with others, or just doing comedy... 
I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior r... 
I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to ... 
The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. ... 
Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That&#... 
I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for thre... 
After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going... 
When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian hi... 
My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station ... 
I left school and couldn't find acting work, so I started going to clubs where you could do stan... 
I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand... 
You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a whi... 
I got 'Delhi Belly' and 'Badmaash Company' because people from the production house ... 
It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who a... 
When I first began doing TV pilots, my expectations were high. I didn't understand that world. S... 
When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show. 
When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that... 
My childhood, I wouldn't say it was bad. It helped me grow up. I stayed out of trouble. My paren... 
I'm not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I'm fine, but stand me up ... 
In my stubborn youth, I believed that I could stand alone, that I was strong enough to conquer my en... 
I've battled with that type of stuff, but what I've found is that by doing stand-up, I'v... 
I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky th... 