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There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.
— Elayne Boosler
Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
— Paula Danziger
Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.
— Marilyn Manson
Outsiders develop humor as a defense; why do you think most comedians are gay or Jewish?
— Paul Lynde
Architects are the new comedians.
— Simon Doonan
I know a lot about Jewish comedians.
— Dana Snyder
As a kid, I remember wearing a checkered suit and appearing on-stage in the routines worked out by the 'baggy pants' comedians.
— Seymour Cassel
When I started, there was no comedy community, no comedy industry; there were comedians.
— Robert Klein
A lot of the comedians don't even tell the joke. Like only three tell the joke, the rest of them dissect it.
— Bob Saget
Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset the comedians themselves. — Richard Pryor
If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.
— Olivia Munn
Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.
— Groucho Marx
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
— John Ratzenberger
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you.
— Jim Gaffigan
When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.
— Rory Bremner
All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.
— David Letterman
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
— Natasha Leggero
If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves.
— Judd Apatow
What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.
— Buster Keaton
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
— Adam Carolla
Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.
— Dave Chappelle
Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have
— Jerry Seinfeld
Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.
— Rachel Dratch
The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.
— Woody Allen
Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.
— Les Claypool
I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
— Denis Norden
I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
— Joely Fisher
Yes," called out the sort of people who call out "yes" when comedians ask them if they're having a wonderful time.
— Douglas Adams
Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home.
— Elsa Lanchester
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
— Johann Georg Zimmermann
A comedian is better than a politician; at least there is no doubt.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.
— Alan Rudolph
Why are we casting all these stand-up comedians to do 'Breaking Bad,' one of the most dramatic TV shows ever?
— Steven Michael Quezada
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
— Jimmy Durante
I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.
— Chris Rock
Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'
— Don Cornelius
I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up.
— Demetri Martin
Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.
— Yakov Smirnoff
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
— Jim Butcher
I love comedians. They're my community.
— Louis C.K.
I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.
— Roberto Benigni
I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
— Jack Whitehall
Jews have a tendency to become comedians.
— Sacha Baron Cohen
Donald Trump is not running for president. This is devastating news for Trump's supporters - all of whom are late night comedians.
— Conan O'Brien
The funniest part of that joke is, 'say what you will about Hitler'.-to Ricky Gervais on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee — Jerry Seinfeld
But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.
— Jean Reno
Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.
— Jenny Slate
Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.
— Aziz Ansari
Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
— Jimmy Wales
Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race.
— Margaret Cho
If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.
— Judd Apatow
I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.
— Steve Martin
I don't think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.
— Craig Ferguson
Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.
— Tommy Chong
When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.
— Mike Birbiglia
I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.
— Kevin Dillon
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 go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
— Eddie Izzard
There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.
— Jim Gaffigan
That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.
— Dana Carvey
My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.
— Andy Kindler
To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
— Don Rickles
Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
— Jack Black
I think comedians see themselves as people among people.
— Michael Showalter
I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.
— Mike Birbiglia
I find comedians to be the biggest cocksuckers, because they don't want people to know how easy it is.
— Gavin McInnes
I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.
— Michael Showalter
It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
— Wanda Sykes
Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.
— Tracy Morgan
I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.
— Hannibal Buress
Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.
— Jeff Garlin
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
— Gabriel Iglesias
I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.
— Kaley Cuoco
We can't all be comedians, some people have to do the laughing.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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
I like seeing comedians do stuff that I could never do.
— Josh Thomas