Comedian Quotes - Page 12

• A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

  Will Rogers

  Lasts, Serious, Humour

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

  Al Franken

  People, Pressure, Comedy

  Interview with Stephen Thompson, progressive.org. July 2, 2009.

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• Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracy, Atheism

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• I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.

  Drew Carey

  Would Be, Shows, Wanted

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November, 1997.

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• I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

  Judd Apatow

  Running, Thinking, Cities

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• One of my first jobs was on a lesbian cruise. I was the ship comedian for the Lesbian Love Boat.

  Margaret Cho

  Jobs, Ships, Firsts

  "Margaret Cho: I'm the One That I Want". TV Special, August 4, 2000.

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• I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.

  Channing Tatum

  Drama, Should Have, Play

  Interview with Marlon Wayans, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 16, 2009.

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• There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thinking, Parent, Made

  "'Fat' Dad Jim Gaffigan On Kids, Comedy And Apartment Living". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 2, 2013.

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• Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Writing, Views, Fit

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Kids, People, Creative

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• I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians ... just like some people are born dentists.

  Paul Reiser

  People, Comedy, Dentist

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• Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

  Arthur Miller

  Laughter, Heart, Laughing

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.591, A&C Black

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• Old radio comedy makes me laugh, as well as 'I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue' and comedians like Paul Merton.

  Lynne Truss

  Sorry, Laughing, Radio

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• All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

  William Saroyan

  Dirty, People, Unbearable

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• Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Suicide

  Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.199, Faber & Faber

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• I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Lines, May

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.

  Bob Newhart

  Choices Made, Careers, Differences

  "Bob Newhart Set For Las Vegas Show". Interview with Scott Gulbransen, states.aarp.org. November 3, 2016.

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• The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

  Jack Dee

  Attitude, Laughing, Matter

  "I'm not an interesting celebrity. I don't snort cocaine or wear women's underwear" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2007.

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• If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

  Jack Dee

  Role Models, Roles, Ifs

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• I was a film-directing major at NYU. I'm still not sure why I became a directing major, when I was really an actor and a comedian, but there was something that drew me to doing that.

  Billy Crystal

  Film Directing, Nyu, Actors

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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

  Aziz Ansari

  Rapper, Guy, Being Cool

  "Aziz Ansari's Latest Is 'Dangerously Delicious'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wlrn.org. April 2, 2012.

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

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Believe

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• My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement.

  Carol Leifer

  Father, Long, Guy

  Carol Leifer (2009). “When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win: Reflections on Looking in the Mirror”, p.3, Villard

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• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  Jack Dee

  Comedy

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• Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.

  Flip Wilson

  Humor, Men, Ems

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