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To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.
— John Leguizamo
The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.
— Jerry Seinfeld
What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.
— Carlos Mencia
No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years.
— Tom Smothers
A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.
— Jeff Dunham
As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier.
— Iliza Shlesinger
Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.
— Dick Gregory
Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset
the comedians themselves. — Richard Pryor
the comedians themselves. — Richard Pryor
I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.
— Jordan Peele
Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.
— Groucho Marx
All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.
— David Letterman
If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves.
— Judd Apatow
I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.
— Kristen Wiig
What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.
— Buster Keaton
As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.
— Judah Friedlander
The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.
— Woody Allen
I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they could until now.
— Ricky Gervais
A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.
— Will Rogers
You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.
— Tracy Morgan
There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.
— Tom Leykis
I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.
— Rodney Carrington
Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.
— David Walliams
For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.
— Tatiana Maslany
If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.
— Judd Apatow
I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.
— Steven Wright
When you do stuff as a comedian, Hollywood sees you as a comedian and so most of the calls I get are for a funny movie or something like that.
— Cedric The Entertainer
I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian.
— Dennis Miller
Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer
— Ken Jennings
I come from the stage. I started my career as a stand-up comedian and then later on became an actor.
— Patrick Huard
I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo.
— Gabriel Iglesias
Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.
— Woody Allen
As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.
— Elayne Boosler
Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.
— Flip Wilson
I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.
— Steve Martin
I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it.
— Robert Klein
I don't think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.
— Craig Ferguson
I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again.
— George Carlin
I'm a goofball and a comedian
— Kid Cudi
I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.
— Penn Jillette
Jason [Sudeikis] is a successful actor and comedian, I don't think that he takes comedic roles any less seriously than he does dramatic roles.
— Taron Egerton
When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'
— Susan Sarandon
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.
— Camille Paglia
I'm not a comedian, I'm an actor.
— Chris Diamantopoulos
Every night was improv.
— Kliph Nesteroff
If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.
— Paul Merton
I like seeing what the comedian thinks is funny, not just what they think I'll think is funny.
— Anthony Jeselnik
You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll end up as a clown.
— Ljupka Cvetanova
Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
— E. E. Cummings
The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it's the audience that receives it - and has to get it.
— Rachel Sklar
We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.
— Kevin Nealon
Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain?
— Pablo Francisco
Meal isn't over when I'm full. Meal's over when I hate myself.
— Patton Oswalt
As a comedian I appreciate every kind of comedy. You decide for yourself what you're going to do.
— Jeff Foxworthy
Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
— Alan Moore
The funniest thing a comedian can do is not do it.
— W.C. Fields
I better start doing stand up comedy in Spanish before every comedian in Mexico translates my jokes.
— Felipe Esparza
I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.
— Will Smith
I might've been witty, but I didn't have a shtick. So, I never considered myself a comedian.
— Scott Adsit
An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.
— Anthony Jeselnik
If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
— Eddie Izzard
You have to be delusional to be a comedian.
— Mike Birbiglia
I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.
— Bernie Mac
There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.
— Jim Gaffigan
I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor ... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.
— Steve Carell
A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny.
— Buster Keaton
When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998)
— Henny Youngman
It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.
— John Oliver
I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.
— Maya Rudolph
I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
— Laura Benanti
The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his .
— W.C. Fields
Will Rogers used to say he wouldn't run for president no matter how badly the country needed a comedian.
— Will Rogers
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
— George Jean Nathan