Comedian Quotes

• Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Change

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Stupid People

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

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

  Alan Moore

  Humor, Realizing, Make Sense

  "Fictional character: Edward Blake". "Watchmen", www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Dream, Revolutionary Ideas

  "Bill Hicks: Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

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• Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, People

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• The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

  George Jean Nathan

  Funny, Real, Humor

  American Mercury, Sept. 1929

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  At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

  Joan Rivers

  Funeral, Age, Different

  Joan Rivers (2012). “I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me”, p.44, Penguin

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• Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Funny, War, Teaching

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  In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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• There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

  Tom Leykis

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• When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

  Carrot Top

  My Friends, Laughed

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• Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

  John Podhoretz

  Animal, Two, Different

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• Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

  Ben Stiller

  Parent, Directors, Actors

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• Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

  Paula Danziger

  Character, Names

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

  Lenny Bruce

  Laughing, Fifteen, Roles

  "Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth". Documentary, Biography, Comedy, 1998.

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• I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian.

  Bobby Darin

  Thinking, Flip, Wilson

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• I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.

  Steve Harvey

  Class, Needs, Firsts

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• I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

  Patton Oswalt

  Mean, Ponds, Late

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• I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

  Ben E. King

  Vegas, Las Vegas

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

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• I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.

  Shelley Berman

  Believe, Important, Knows

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

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• Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Humor, Actors, Imitation

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• You say you're a comedian, you always have to be on guard.

  Anthony Anderson

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

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• In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

  Rory Bremner

  Age, Satirist

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• Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

  Ade Edmondson

  Smart, Sassy, Endearing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

  Alan Rudolph

  Fun, Kids, Tvs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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