I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show. — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The thing about comedians is, we're generally pretty smart. So, if we can be smart and funny, that is the victory. — Neal Brennan Copy Share Image
I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession. — Elayne Boosler Copy Share Image
When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
I found a great deal of relief and excitement watching comics when I was very young. My grandmother was very into them… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
A lot of comedians get a bad rep once they have kids and that's all they talk about, and people are like,… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
Back in the 1970s, male prime-time comedians mainly resembled Mr Potato Head. The terrifically popular 'Wheeltappers and Shunters Club' was a comedy… — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless… — Kurt Braunohler Copy Share Image
Interesting-looking people have always been comedians, and it's rare that someone who has the choice to model ends up being a comic.… — Lisa Lampanelli Copy Share Image
In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy,… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Most Scots might be able to identify six vegetables - but only two MSPs. There are parts of Scotland where you rarely… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
I feel like women are frequently seen as guests in the comedy world - you know, a kid sister of the “real… — Chelsea Peretti Copy Share Image
This is something that the nimblest standup comedians learn, over time, to handle gracefully. They'll go between prepared material, then they'll respond… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
We're lucky enough, especially in these 'Madagascar' films, to be working with some of the best people in the industry, who are… — Eric Darnell Copy Share Image
It's funny how comedy is, you look at people like French and Saunders, when they started out they were very alternative. A… — Peter Kay Copy Share Image
I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
Because I'm around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is… — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians,… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Women don't want to exchange places with men. Male chauvinists, science-fiction writers and comedians may favor that idea for its shock value,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you've got politicians giving… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The image people have of comedians staring defiantly over a stationary line of good taste is simply inaccurate. We don't approach this… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them. You can gauge how good a joke… — Natasha Leggero Copy Share Image
I don't know why comedians moan about touring; you get driven to a town, stay in a hotel, work for an hour… — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I've found, across the board, that comedians have been very respectful and kind to me. And that seems to stem from the… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
One thing I found very interesting about comedians around the world was their knowledge of stuff outside of their own culture and… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
I was a writer. I couldn't sell anything, and the comedians were among the dumbest people I had ever met. They'd all… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought,… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
It's our hope that MySpace Comedy, much like Music and Film before it, will serve as a launch pad for up-and-coming comedians… — Tom Anderson Copy Share Image
I love 'Another Round.' It's Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton's podcast that's through BuzzFeed, and they're real funny and really themselves. And… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we're all kind of messed up in the same way,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
There are many styles of standup, but the comedians I like are people like Dick Gregory and Richard Pryor. Because Richard Pryor… — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image
I used to bug all of the comedians for interviews, and when people want to talk to me, sometimes I'm very receptive… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
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