Comedian Quotes - Page 16

• Many comedians consider themselves to be cutting edge. But why do we have to use the knife for the analogy. Let's use the spoon. I like to consider myself the big bowl-like area of the spoon that holds all the stuff you like.

  Brian Regan

  Cutting, Knives, Spoons

  Source: mauitime.com

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• I'm honored that other comedians like what I do. That means the world to me. But at the same time when I'm on stage I'm not just trying to make the comedians laugh - I'm also trying to make the audience laugh. I want to make everybody laugh.

  Brian Regan

  Mean, Laughing, Trying

  Source: www.charlestoncitypaper.com

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• I just want to kind of tackle every kind of form that exists in the comedy world; whether it be stand-up or hidden camera or parody. Kind of slap it in a movie with hip-hop artists and actors, comedians and girls. I just want to do something fun.

  Pauly Shore

  Girl, Fun, Artist

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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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

  Worst, Bother, Jokes

  "Hannibal Buress on his new show and newfound celebrity". Interview with Miles Raymer, tv.avclub.com. July 7, 2015.

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• I'm not a politician, I'm a comedian. I know my limitations.

  Bernie Mac

  Politician, Knows, Limitation

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing and directing myself usually deal with the darker side of the human psyche and excruciating social faux pas. I often deal in taboos and the subjects I do as a stand-up are quite challenging. But my film roles have been much more fun and escapist.

  Ricky Gervais

  Fun, Writing, Challenges

  "Ricky Gervais Interview: 'Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb', Corpsing With Ben Stiller And The Best Bits Of His Job". HuffPostUK Intreview, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. July 4, 2015.

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• Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.

  Katy Perry

  Entertainment, Fart, Blasphemy

  Twitter post from Jun 8, 2010

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• I'm not a broad comedy guy. I've been funny in movies, but I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who's sometimes funny.

  Matthew Lillard

  Guy, Actors, Comedy

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• I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

  Jamie Foxx

  Music Love, I Love Music, Wanted

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• When I began doing theatre in high school I saw that I could get laughs from people but I didn't really connect that to going on and becoming a comedian. I was interested in acting and while I was at Boston College I was part of an improv group, Mother's Fleabag, which had a long history and has been known as one of the best college improvisation groups in the U.S.

  Amy Poehler

  Mother, School, College

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• Acting is the great love of my life. It gives you permission to use all parts of yourself. Permission to be the hero, the love interest, the comedian, the villain. Transformation excites me. So does truth. Nothing is more thrilling, hilarious, and tragic than the truth. Those things motivated me to become an actor. Also, they always have the best food on set.

  Blake Griffin

  Hero, Giving, Great Love

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.

  Adam DeVine

  Hate, Tv Shows, Trying

  "Adam Devine on How to Throw a House Party". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

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• As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I found a great deal of relief and excitement watching comics when I was very young. My grandmother was very into them and so was my grandfather. They had a profound effect on me, so I just found myself watching comedians on the after-school shows: Merv Griffin and that kind of stuff.

  Marc Maron

  School, Grandmother, Profound

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• Whether people know the evolution of the conversation or not, I don't know, but thematically, as a comedian, I stay in the same ballpark - around my issues and my philosophy of life.

  Marc Maron

  Philosophy, Issues, People

  Interview with Kyle Dowling, www.believermag.com.

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• I've never been able to tell jokes. In the beginning of my career I did impressions and jokes like any other comedian, but I was never very successful because I did it poorly. So I started to talk to the audience and started talking about the atmosphere around me and started to become angry, not in a mean-spirited way, but in a fun way - and my attitude developed from there.

  Don Rickles

  Fun, Attitude, Mean

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• I always say that comedians and actors were all kind of shy when they were young. I was very, believe it or not, kind of embarrassed as a child. But my mother was a very strong lady and she was the one that kept it going when I thought it would be over for me as a performer. She was always my inspiration and she was a big influence on me.

  Don Rickles

  Mother, Strong, Children

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• I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.

  Demetri Martin

  Use, Strange, Sometimes

  Source: www.thefutoncritic.com

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• For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves. I find it very hard to be shocked, and when other people aggressively take offense to something, I'm sometimes confused.

  Demetri Martin

  Confused, Moving, People

  Source: uproxx.com

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• As a comedian, I can walk out in front of 5000 people and not worry about a thing. Not a thing, believe me. But to stand up a face a camera and crew of maybe 15 guys and get up tight about it - to me that's weird.

  Bill Cosby

  Believe, People, Worry

  Playboy Interview, ispy65.tripod.com. May 1969.

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• I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Art, Needs, Form

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.

  Johnny Carson

  Views, Want, Social

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• The classic comedian says there's nothing that's taboo; if you laugh at one thing you've got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.

  Bo Burnham

  Dark, Light, Laughing

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: 'I'll say anything, man!'. I'm not quite there yet.

  Bo Burnham

  Men, Say Anything, Feels

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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