Comedian Quote by Barry Humphries Download Open image “There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.” — Barry Humphries ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comedian Comedian Taken Comedy Fate Fate Comedian Seriously Taken Taken Seriously Terrible
There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to a comedian is to do a documentary on your life and you're watching it with an audience… — David Steinberg Copy Share Image
As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time. — Maria Bamford Copy Share Image
A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
“A comedian's life is truly a comedy in itself. The majority cannot take themselves seriously.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh. — Robyn Hitchcock Copy Share Image
All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very… — Margaret Rutherford Copy Share Image
It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug. — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
The past is so reliable, so delightful and the best place to live. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know,… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I never thought that I would become a staple in the Australian cultural diet. The equivalent of bread or milk, or a fine old… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I like people who are slightly unhygienic. A little grubbiness isn't so bad. BO chic it should be called. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I like to turn up my collar when I'm leaving the theatre and feel like I'm some heroic comedian figure. — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
The only difference between a comedian and someone else? We need to make people laugh more. — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
When a soldier of the night's watch dies they say, "And now his watch is over." That's what they say when a comedian dies.… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
If I had a choice, I would rather watch a comedian not involve themselves in politics at all but be hilarious than someone who… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
If someone doesn't like a comedian that's fine; a lot of people probably don't like my standup, and that's fine. But I think that… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
It's very rare that an older comedian sort of slips into an old-school clunker. You know, you don't hear too much of that anymore. — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
I was a kid, and I would watch standup comics do the 'Tonight Show,' and if Johnny Carson liked you, he'd wave you over… — Jo Koy Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo.… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image
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