Comedian Quotes · Page 9

Jews have a tendency to become comedians.

— Sacha Baron Cohen

Woody Allen is a great dramatist and a great comedian.

— Cate Blanchett

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

— Sam Kinison

I wanted to be a comedian, but I wasn't funny enough to do it every night.

— John Popper

You have to be delusional to be a comedian.

— Mike Birbiglia

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

— Jenny Slate

One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear.

— Bob Newhart

The comedian just wants to get a laugh.

— Casey Wilson

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

— Graham Norton

Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.

— Margaret Cho

I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.

— Donald Glover

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

— Dana Carvey

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as…

— Steve Carell

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

— Gilbert Gottfried

I love pure joke-tellers, but if I go to see a comedian for a full show, I want to feel I know…

— John Bishop

Johnny Carson is a comedian who is seen every night in millions of bedrooms all over America...and that's why his last wife…

— Dean Martin

I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for…

— Wanda Sykes

I think there is more comedians now than ever, more venues now than ever. There are stand-ups who live in towns where…

— Joe Rogan

John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy,…

— Kaley Cuoco

Listen, if you a comedian, and you try to jump in the rap lane, it's not gonna work out the way you…

— Blueface

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

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

Since we are made up of comedians and filmmakers and writers and improvisers, we have the unique opportunity to bring joy to…

— Lizz Winstead

My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such…

— Brian d'Arcy James

I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background…

— Fred Armisen

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first…

— Eliza Coupe

Funny bones, to me, are more important than funny lines. If a comedian is just not likable and doing the lines, you…

— Ricky Gervais

I have a very high respect for professional comedians. What they do astonishes me. You have to be really smart and absorb…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and…

— Jim Gaffigan

We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do…

— Rachael MacFarlane

My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would…

— Andrew Dice Clay

Some street jokes are just timeless. There's an old street joke about comedians. The joke is that a beautiful girl comes up…

— Amy Schumer

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

— Don Rickles

I antagonize people wherever I go. I think it's a mirth defect.

— Rock Cowles

My great-grandfather was a variety hall comedian called Billy Mack.

— Lee Mack

You know, I've never thought of myself as a comedian.

— Terry Jones

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

— Steven Michael Quezada

The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked.

— Andy Borowitz

What made me a comedian was staying on the stage and starting to talk.

— John Bishop

I always wanted to be a popular comedian.

— Ron White