The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.
Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.
My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.
Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.
Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.
Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.
As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.
Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.
The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry
I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.
My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.
It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing
I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.
They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.
I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
I didn't really want to be a comedian.
Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.
When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'
I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.
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