Comedians Quotes · Page 2

I love standup comedians. I really do.

— Jim Gaffigan

Architects are the new comedians.

— Simon Doonan

Good comedians are great philosophers.

— Reggie Watts

People are born comedians.

— Johnny Lever

A lot of comedians are selfish.

— J. B. Smoove

Comedians should never apologize for a joke.

— Tony Hinchcliffe

I don't like any female comedians.

— Jerry Lewis

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

— Michael Showalter

Christmas coming means one thing for comedians: office party gigs!

— Katherine Ryan

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

— Joseph Bologna

Many comedians have a dark side that lets them take a negative thing and turn it funny.

— Rachel Dratch

I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

— Russell Peters

Ever looked at your best friend and wonder: Why the hell aren't we comedians?

— Anonymous

There's a bunch of really good comedians who I've known for years.

— Matt Rife

Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions.

— Bill Burr

People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.

— Harvey Korman

It's still amazing to me to walk down the halls of 'SNL.' You see pictures of the greatest comedians we grew up…

— Jorma Taccone

I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.

— Samantha Akkineni

All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.

— Larry King

There's a lot of theaters in New York. You can always go out and be around a lot of like-minded comedians.

— Kenan Thompson

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of…

— Bo Burnham

I've always wanted to make people laugh. It's been my only ambition, ever since my dad introduced me to the genius of…

— Diane Morgan

There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S.…

— John Oliver

There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.

— Elayne Boosler

Every comedian works differently. Some comedians might do just observational stuff and they don't do anything personal, and other people.. everything they…

— Brian Regan

I was immediately into all the great movie comedians - Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder. Everything those guys had…

— Doug Benson

Jewish comedians do the best Jewish jokes, and anyone else doing that, they don't have a right to, because they're not coming…

— Simon Pegg

When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke…

— Jasper Carrott

You have comedians who just do jokes, and they're called comics, not comedians. You have comedians that do bits - a person…

— Charlie Murphy

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic…

— Todd Barry

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being…

— Pauly Shore

When something really affects you, it's hard to find the humor in it sometimes. There's are a lot of reasons why there…

— Sarah Cooper

The personal boundaries, I think for comedians they're a little bit different anyway, but I think people - feel free to do…

— Brad Williams

I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were…

— Tig Notaro

I think most comedians go through that (period), where you have to change or evolve. You don't want to just keep doing…

— Patton Oswalt

We're shaking up a format, which I think is always a good thing. The thing about [2011 Oscar hosts] James [Franco] and…

— Bruce Vilanch

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— Anonymous

Growing up, I didn't know anything about comedy and didn't know anything about comedians or what standup was. I grew up in…

— Carlos Mencia

This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.…

— Zach Woods

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