The Comedian Quotes
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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
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
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
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
What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.
— Buster Keaton
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
Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.
— Lenny Bruce
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
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
The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.
— Gilbert Gottfried
Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
— Alan Moore
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
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
I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.
— Jon Stewart
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
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
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
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
Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.
— Dave Allen
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— 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
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
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
