Comedian Quotes - Page 13

• I've been doing comedies but I'm not a comedian.

  Sean William Scott

  Comedy

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• As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

  Kevin Nealon

  Musician, Littles, Kind

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• I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

  Kevin Nealon

  Actors, Stand Up Comedian

  "Kevin Nealon On His New Special, The End Of ‘Weeds’ And His Worst Acting Experience". Interview With Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2012.

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• I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Visuals

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• When young comedians ask me for advice that's the one thing I always say is if they're improvisers I'm like do improv, don't make that your sole thing. And at the end of the day when you do your best work you also just kinda, by definition flush it down the toilet and never do it again.

  Chris Gethard

  Advice, Ask Me

  Source: nyc.brightestyoungthings.com

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• Somebody who opposes Trump is wound so tight, they're not funny people anyway, that they don't get his humor. They really believe when he tells these jokes that that's dead serious stuff. There's not enough laughter on the left. Even their comedians are angry. Their comedians, the humor they shoot for is all personal put-down kind of humor where it used to not be that way. But Trump's humor, even the stuff that's not subtle, they miss, they take it literally and are frightened to death by it. It's incredible.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Laughter, Believe, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Seriously, if you want to get inside the head of a stand-up comic, you could do a lot worse than reading Steve Martin's Born Standing Up, all about how he developed his career and his creativity as a comedian. Lots of what he talks about is relevant to anyone in the creative arts - you find yourself, your voice, your technique and then maybe luck calls.

  Al Murray

  Art, Reading, Creativity

  Source: www.roland.co.uk

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• Growing up as a comedian, the first thing you dream of is having your own album, but even more than that, I always wanted that hour special on cable.

  Christian Finnegan

  Dream, Growing Up, Special

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Of course, the world is different now. There's a glut of comedians with specials, so it's just not possible to make an impact the way Bill Cosby: Himself did. It's like, The Beatles were amazing, but it also helped that not many bands were putting out albums then.

  Christian Finnegan

  Different, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd like to think I'm a little more memorable or specific now. People laugh at me in a way they wouldn't laugh at another comedian, rather than being like, "Okay, who's the next joke-slinger? Give me some jokes so I may laugh and go about my day!"

  Christian Finnegan

  Memorable, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had no choice but to make me as a comedian, because I am not particularly gifted with a lot of marketable skills. Unless I really want to spend the rest of my life temping, or teaching drama to third-graders, I don't have a lot of other options - which is freeing, in a way. I never have to say, "Well, I could always go back to law school."

  Christian Finnegan

  Drama, Teaching, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Michael Ian Black wears many hats. He's a stand-up comedian, a comedic actor, he's now a writer-director so he knew how to work with all of us. And furthermore, because so much of his career is based on improvisation he gave us the freedom to do that as well.

  Jason Biggs

  Black, Comedic, Improvisation

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You want to have the experience. As far as the creative side, the more I do this, the more I know that it's all about the writing. You got on a film sometimes and it's sort of half-written, and they expect and think that the actor's job is to bring the extra part and the good part. It's not. We're good at saying what other people have written, but for the majority of it, that's about it, comedians aside. It's all in the writing. Whether that's dialogue or character, or whatever, it doesn't matter. As long as they've done something special, than you can do something special.

  Wes Bentley

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The problem with a lot of comedy clubs is not that they are a comedy club; it's just the cheesy way they're presenting themselves. That's why a lot of people have a problem with them. If you're a relatively unknown comedian, you can play at a comedy club, you might play to hundreds of people every night. But if you try to make a concert event out of it, and try to play a rock club or something, where you might play to 10 people or no people. And the flipside of that is, that's also a great thing, to play to people who are your fans. Some people are too hard on the comedy clubs.

  Todd Barry

  Night, People, Cheesy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's a weird loneliness that comes with being a comedian, especially standup. Even with improvisers, I think there are certain moments of truth where you feel really, really connected to audiences, and that's when you're on stage. I think there's definitely something inside the personality of a person who wants to be a comedian that's looking to connect at all times. That's where the adrenaline rushes in their lives come from.

  Chris Gethard

  Loneliness, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.flickreel.com

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• Being comedian outside of performing, you're someone who's analyzing life, and thinking about it, and observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel sort of on the outside looking in.

  Chris Gethard

  Thinking, Opinion, Performing

  Source: www.flickreel.com

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• You're always on duty because you're in a constant state of observation. That's one of the challenges of being a comedian. I think one of the other challenges is that, whether we like it or not, it's a profession that requires failure. It doesn't just encourage failure. It requires it because it's all trial and error. You need to know what doesn't work to know what works.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Thinking, Challenges, Duty

  Source: www.flickreel.com

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• There's many hundreds of millions of people who have jobs harder than comedians. And I also remind myself of that everyday. No matter how frustrating this can be, I'm very lucky that I've been able to cobble together a little life where this is what I do.

  Chris Gethard

  People, Everyday, Together

  Source: www.flickreel.com

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• Talking about the fact that I get depressed or that I've had some suicidal issues in my life is not easy. I don't know of many comedians who are going all in on that. In some sense, I think I've maybe sacrificed some momentum doing that. In another sense, I'm in a place where if I can talk about that and if it helps some kid in a way that gives them some help that wasn't available to me when I was a kid, then I gotta do that. Put being a good person first. If you have a platform, use it for stuff that's noble and good and worth putting out in the world.

  Chris Gethard

  Suicidal, Kids, Thinking

  Source: razorcake.org

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• I'm naturally inclined to want to be funny and make people laugh, and that's what I want to do with my life. I also want to do it on an intelligent level. I want to kill the clown but I also want to preserve the comedian.

  Casey Neistat

  Intelligent, People, Laughing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things. You're supposed to laugh, you're supposed to cry, you're not supposed to shove your feelings under the rug.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thinking, Laughing, Feelings

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• When you're 17 years old, you have no idea who you are as a person, so there's no way you can be a good performer. You can't be a good comedian, because you don't know who you are, you don't know what you're saying. Stand-up is nothing but an expression of self-awareness. It wasn't until I was 23, 24 that I got to have a handle on a perspective on life, where I became decent. And I was just a terribly socially awkward younger person.

  Dana Gould

  Perspective, Awkward, Decent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The glass is always half empty. All good comedians are manic-depressive.

  Joan Rivers

  Empty

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life. I like Louis C.K.'s stuff or Bill Burr's stuff. I feel like there's comedy where someone will think of something that they think will work comedically, and then they reverse engineer that point of view so they can say that funny thing. The comedians I like, it could be an allusion, but it feels like their point of view comes first and then the jokes are a reflection of what they actually believe, or are frightened of, or are curious about, or are interested in.

  Zach Woods

  Believe, Reflection, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some rules are good. For example, off the top of my head, let's say a stand-up comedian or a talk show host wearing a nice suit - as a ponderer, I grew up like, "Why don't they just go up there in their army jacket? They're fine!" Then little by little, you think, "You know, it's kind of nice to look nice, like you made the effort." Then you're back at rule one; that was the original rule.

  Fred Armisen

  Nice, Army, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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