Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

John Cleese

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

Kevin Dillon

I'm a big fan of comedians not having to apologize for anything. Nowadays it seems comedians are always apologizing for being funny.

Michael Ian Black

There's this misconception that comedy and music go together. They don't. Comedians can't compete with rock stars; they're just not on the same level. Rock stars will always be cooler. They will always get more girls.

Jenny McCarthy

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

Janeane Garofalo

Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

Judd Apatow

If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves.

Judd Apatow

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

Judd Apatow

I have to make good things so good comedians want to talk to me.

Natasha Leggero

In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

Maria Bamford

When you're a comedian, you're just by yourself.

Kathy Griffin

Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist.

Kristen Wiig

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

Kingsley Amis

It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.

Kid Cudi

I'm a goofball and a comedian

Margaret Cho

I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.

Paul Provenza

Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that - and then some.

Paul Rudd

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.

Paul Rudd

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

Marilyn Manson

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

Chris Rock

I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show.

Chris Rock

Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV.

Chris Rock

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

Chris Rock

Eddie Murphy is to comedians what Nicki Minaj is to Spanx.

Chris Rock

Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather.

Chris Rock

Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian; you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that through to everybody.

Gilbert Gottfried

Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics. The club owners would say, 'What are you doing that for? Nobody knows him.'

Gilbert Gottfried

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.

Jonah Hill

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

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.

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.

Simon Doonan

Architects are the new comedians.