Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenny Slate

I am a comedian and I started in stand-up when I was 22.

Jenny Slate

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

Jim Gaffigan

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

Jim Gaffigan

Even when you hear about a comedian getting married, among comedians, we're always kind of like, what are they doing?

Jim Gaffigan

I love stand-up comedians. I really do.

Jim Gaffigan

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

Harvey Pekar

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

Jeff Garlin

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

Matt Roper

If comedians were truly free of repression, there would not be an inherent need to perform for the love of a roomful of total strangers.

Kaley Cuoco

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.

He's not a comedian who's interested in hurting people. He's just one of the good guys -- he always has been.... He's not a saint, he's not Mr. Perfect, but he's a very, very decent guy.

Eugene Mirman

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

Will Rogers

Comedians haven't improved. Nothing has improved but taxes.

Jane Levy

It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

Chris Lilley

I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.

Jon Stewart

Hopefully the only things off-limits are crummy jokes, but being a standup comedian, I know that's not always the case... You know it when you have to take a shower afterward.

Jon Stewart

As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward to the end of the Bush administration with every fiber of my being.

Josh Gad

I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.

Gene Wilder

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this.

Richard Pryor

Unfortunately, the show's success comes at the expense of its biggest asset -- the comedians themselves.

Tucker Carlson

Every single comedian in Canada is now living in the United States.

Morgan Freeman

I'm not a comedian. I don't make things funny if they're not funny. I don't invent funny stuff.

Jonah Hill

I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

Elayne Boosler

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

John Hodgman

This is something that the nimblest standup comedians learn, over time, to handle gracefully. They'll go between prepared material, then they'll respond to what's happening in the room and weave it back into the prepared material and so on.

John Oliver

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

Jimmy Wales

Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.

Joe Rogan

I don't really like actors. Actors are like terrible comedians with no punch lines. It's all about them. They talk about themselves all the time. They bore the sh - t out of you.

Jimmy Durante

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Jimmy Carr

All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.

George Lindsey

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

Joy Behar

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

Simon Pegg

Jewish comedians do the best Jewish jokes, and anyone else doing that, they don't have a right to, because they're not coming from that experience. I know that's a slightly heightened example, but it's the same thing. We're bumpkins, so we can make bumpkin jokes.