Audience Quote by Alexei Sayle

Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.

— Aziz Ansari

One thing as a comedian, even though throughout your entire year, you're growing and working on your material... you can feel like you're getting…

— Matt Rife

Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.

— Woody Allen

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

— Lenny Bruce

We have to have humor to survive 22 episodes a year of network television.

— Sallie Patrick

I never wanted to churn it out. Comedians tend to work all the time. They never put it down like musicians who might make…

— Chris Rock

My approach to comedy is that whenever it comes to me, I write it. With 'The Daily Show,' you have to write stuff every…

— Ronny Chieng

I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up…

— Andrew Dice Clay

Comedy can be quite all consuming at times, and if you're not careful you end up doing a tour, then a DVD, then another…

— Bill Bailey

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but…

— Bill Burr

It is utterly asinine that people continually go to comedy shows without bothering to see if their sensibilities line up with the comedians.

— Phoebe Robinson

I grew up watching Letterman, 'Seinfeld,' 'SNL,' and Monty Python movies. But nothing made me want to get into comedy more than when 'Mr.…

— Joe Mande