1980s Quote by Alexei Sayle Download Open image “It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.” — Alexei Sayle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1980s Career Comedy Careers Comedy Comedy 1980S Easier Humor Make Career Seems
Comedy is like music; it builds on itself. Once someone comes up with a theory or a different way of doing things, people start… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Cinema was haywire in the 1980s. It was a funny period in films then. — Karan Kapoor Copy Share Image
In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures. — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the '80s, but toward the end of that, in the early '90s, people started doing… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
I never really thought of comedy as a career. My goal was, when I moved to New York, I was going to write serious… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy. — Ben Stiller Copy Share Image
Its just I fell into a bunch of movies that kind of fit in my life. It made sense to do them in the… — Rick Moranis Copy Share Image
The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git. — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
“Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I… — Ruadhán J. McElroy Copy Share Image
“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.” — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“As he defended the book one evening in the early 1980s at the Carnegie Endowment in New York, I knew that some of what… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The 1980s were all about synths for me, and it never went away after that. — John Grant Copy Share Image
In the 1980s and the 1990s, when HIV hit its peak, the gay community was at the forefront of the fight against the silent… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Eventually, our kind of music, whether it's us or Motley or Poison of whoever, will define the 1980s. That's something to be proud of. — Jani Lane Copy Share Image
Back in the 1980s, state-of-the-nation fictions were all set in Manhattan. Now, they're all in Trump country. Early in 'S-Town,' we're introduced to an… — David Hepworth Copy Share Image
