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I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes. — Neil LaBute

When somebody mangles one of my jokes, that bothers me more than somebody saying that I'm the worst comedian ever. — Hannibal Buress

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

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun. — Jerry Seinfeld

When another comedian has a lousy show, I'm the first one to admit it. — Jack Benny

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

I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation. — Franklyn Ajaye

Architects are the new comedians. — Simon Doonan

I don't like writing for comedians. I like writing for actors. The best comedians are the best actors. — Neil Simon

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

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world. — Groucho Marx

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent. — Pat Morita

If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves. — Judd Apatow

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. — A. Whitney Brown

Contrary to what certain comedians have led you to believe, the national French pastime is picnicking. — Bob Hope

What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes. — Buster Keaton

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet. — Jo Brand

Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous. — Dave Chappelle

There isn't a comedian in the world that hasn't bombed. — Bob Newhart

The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants. — Woody Allen

Your average comedian doesn't know the podcast universe, really. — Scott Aukerman

George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live. — Denis Leary

Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally. — Lenny Bruce

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't - whichever seems likelier to win an effect. — John Updike

When you're a comedian, the Holy Grail is an hour long HBO special. — Gabriel Iglesias

Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance. — Mark Billingham

I went to the Missing Persons Bureau but no one was there. — George Carlin

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy. — Aziz Ansari

The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form. — Bill Hicks

I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian. — Rachel Zucker

My wife asked me once if I weren't a comedian what I would do. I couldn't answer the question. I never imagined doing anything else. — Dave Chappelle

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian. — Kevin Pollak

Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on. — Chris Rock

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever. — Gilbert Gottfried

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20. — Tom Green

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense. — Alan Moore

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us. — Criss Jami

I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are. — Ellen DeGeneres

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process. — David Walliams

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. — Lenny Bruce

If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me. — Bobcat Goldthwait

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices. — Dave Pelzer

Is he seriously joking with me? The master of the dark art of raising the dead has become a standup comedian? Surely this is the end of the world. — David Estes

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. — H.L. Mencken

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. — Stephen Colbert

A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle. — Buddy Hackett

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse. — Chris Rock

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about. — Jon Stewart

My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth. — Eddie Huang

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker. — Peter Baynham

I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums. — Eric Andre

I'm kind of the antithesis of a comedian. People that don't like me will agree with that. — Frank Caliendo

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny. — Jim Gaffigan

The comedian just wants to get a laugh. — Casey Wilson

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters. — Jim Gaffigan

I have what we call a 'symphony act.' I'm the only comedian, I think, in the country that does it. — Robert Klein

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian. — Colin Quinn

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world. — Trevor Noah

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian. — Tommy Chong

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world. — David Walliams

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 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

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

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

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions. — Bill Burr

The funniest thing a comedian can do is not do it. — W.C. Fields

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be. — Maya Rudolph

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

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

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

Karaoke isn't fair when you're a comedian. The whole idea is to get people laughing and enjoying themselves, and I'm a professional funny guy. — Chris Rock

Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers. — Dave Allen

A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says. — Dana Gould

Frank Fay [...] became renowned as the first of the great comic emcees - and in many minds the first stand-up comedian. — Kliph Nesteroff

Comedians on the stage are invariably suicidal when they get home. — Elsa Lanchester

I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s. — Mark Billingham

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show. — Chris Rock

I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E. — Adam DeVine

I find comedians to be the biggest cocksuckers, because they don't want people to know how easy it is. — Gavin McInnes

When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading — Henny Youngman

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role. — Marcus Brigstocke

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it. — Bob Newhart

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it. — Jay Mohr

Before I was a comedian, I thought the coolest thing that would happen to me was to be a teenager. Boy, was I wrong. — Chris Rock

I am the smartest comedian in the history of the world. — Andy Kindler

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood. — Don Rickles

I sometimes throw in a couple of swears just to keep the Christian right off my tail. I wouldn't want to be the tea party's go-to comedian. — Gary Gulman

I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value of them. I know what they can do. — Louis C.K.

Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God - I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again. — Woody Allen

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

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