Comic Quote by Ambrose Bierce

To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the…

— Melissa Leo

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

— Dick Gregory

When comics are in the room, people have a tendency to try to make them laugh. That doesn't really make you funnier. It makes…

— Jermaine Fowler

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.

— Dane Cook

Funny comes in different levels. Like not looking seasoned, or not looking prepared, the way that an actual comic should look, becomes funny.

— Deon Cole

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

— Dick Gregory

Laughs, just laughs. It's the only motivation of a comic.

— Ari Shaffir

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

— Trevor Noah

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why…

— David Mitchell

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

— Frank Muir

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

— Sandra Bernhard

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more…

— William Hazlitt