Comedian Quotes · Page 16

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

— Chris Rock

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

— Aziz Ansari

From the very beginning I knew I had to be a comedian, and thus preferred being one.

— M. S. Narayana

If you are a New York comedian who knows how to improvise and has glasses, you're going to start getting commercials.

— Chris Gethard

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

— Will Rogers

I have comedic things in my stuff, but I don't consider myself a comedian. I'm just a YouTuber, I guess just a…

— Ryan Higa

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like…

— Tracy Morgan

I love comedy. If I could be a comedian - well, I probably would not take that job because it seems really…

— Taylor Momsen

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

— Tommy Chong

I try not to focus on politics too much - I would never be described as a hugely political woman - but…

— Katherine Ryan

If you watch most of the stuff on TV and in movies, it's usually put-down humor. It's like somebody being mean or…

— Paul Rust

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three…

— Joy Behar

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how…

— Denis Leary

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang…

— Rose Matafeo

I was terrified when my doctor told me that I had a unique and interesting personality trait, but then he told me…

— Doug Stanhope

There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't…

— Josh Radnor

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you…

— John Krasinski

“At some point, I figured that it would be more effective and far funnier to embrace the ugliest, most terrifying things in…

— Sarah Silverman

One of the problems I see with these comics on television, particularly cable television, is, since you can say anything in terms…

— Tom Lehrer

A lot of times people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misunderstand us. They think…

— Tig Notaro

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to…

— Stephen Colbert

I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I…

— Adele

Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny.…

— Jon Lovitz

My advice is: to try and stay really true to the things that make YOU laugh, as opposed to trying to create…

— Dane Cook

Seriously, if you want to get inside the head of a stand-up comic, you could do a lot worse than reading Steve…

— Al Murray

Louis CK went from a writer/comedian to winning Emmys for his own show because he works his ass off.

— Ted Alexandro

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

— Jim Gaffigan

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

— Shelley Berman

I knew nothing about professional comedians when I became a comedian. I was a rabbi. So I had no professional comedians to…

— Jackie Mason

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a…

— Larry David

Gilbert Gottfried, I think, is just the most underappreciated comedian in the world. I think that he doesn't get enough credit for…

— Brett Gelman

I find a duck's opinion of me is very much influenced by whether or not I have bread.

— Mitch Hedberg

That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of…

— W. Kamau Bell

I weighed 107 kilos when 'Sukh' was released. I had become like a South Indian comedian.

— Govinda

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

— Aziz Ansari

I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that.

— Bruce Bruce

One night I attended a Laughing Liberally comedy show. There was one funny comedian there - Lee Camp.

— Matt Labash

“She seemed to feed on their laughter, and they on her humor, like the lily of the pond—sustained by the very water…

— Molly Collier

If Jay spent as much time studying as he does trying to be a comedian, he'd be a big star.

— Jay Leno

I was a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield. He had this HBO Young Comedians Special and he'd always bring up new talent,…

— Gabriel Iglesias