Comedian Quotes · Page 25

I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.

— George Carlin

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

— David Steinberg

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

— Jim Gaffigan

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

— Anonymous

Every comedian wants to play the London Comedy Store, and I was no exception.

— Nigel Ng

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

— Paul Merton

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

— Robyn Hitchcock

I know who Dick Gregory is; I knew what his accomplishments are. I certainly knew him as a comedian and an activist.

— Joe Morton

To ask a pratfall comedian, a dishes-in-the-face comic like me, to lay back and bring none of that stuff to the script…

— Jerry Lewis

A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to…

— Stephan Pastis

I've seen people who are not very likeable but hilarious. I think comedians get to a point where they know they're funny,…

— Ted Alexandro

I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the…

— George Carlin

I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

“Divorce is like surgery without anesthesia. You can feel every cut, every tear, and it leaves scars you can't see, but you…

— Paul Hogan

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing…

— Gilda Radner

Genuinely love doing standup and I'm a comedian first, so for me what makes my standup special is the fact that I…

— Kevin Hart

There's this message to comedians in particular, that you shouldn't write it, and a television writer should write it. And that's a…

— Jim Gaffigan

When you wrap up your self-worth with your talent, and suddenly you might not be the most talented, that's really scary. And…

— Rachel Bloom

When you're 17 years old, you have no idea who you are as a person, so there's no way you can be…

— Dana Gould

If I say 'political comedian,' then people think you're talking about you, the Senate and Congress, and what's going on in Washington…

— W. Kamau Bell

You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think the role of comedy in your life should supersede anything and everything negative. Just by virtue of the fact that…

— DeRay Davis

I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney…

— Roseanne Barr

I came upon whatever I'm doing organically. I didn't study anything. I don't have any real aspirations other than to connect with…

— Marc Maron

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

— Jim Gaffigan

I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian.

— Ricky Gervais

If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

— Norm MacDonald

What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes.

— Carlos Mencia

Nerd. One whose unbridled passion for something defines who they are as a person, without fear of other people's judgment.

— Zachary Levi

When somebody mangles one of my jokes, that bothers me more than somebody saying that I'm the worst comedian ever.

— Hannibal Buress

They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

— Bob Monkhouse

“A comedian's life is truly a comedy in itself. The majority cannot take themselves seriously.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public.

— George Carlin

I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.

— Finn Wolfhard

To be a comedian, you have to have some darkness behind it. I certainly draw on my past, and it helps.

— Matthew Perry

[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.

— Keegan-Michael Key

Before I was a comedian, I thought the coolest thing that would happen to me was being a teenager... Boy, was I…

— Chris Rock

My whole intention is to break down these limitations of what a black comedian is supposed to be and to open up…

— Amanda Seales

What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.

— Buster Keaton

The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with…

— David Steinberg