Clean Quote by Bob Newhart

I had no intention of becoming a comedian. I just wanted to make people happy. I tried everything-I shucked oysters, I painted houses, I…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could get a…

— Jim Jefferies

I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or a profession.

— Elayne Boosler

Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other…

— Ursus Wehrli

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

— Bobby Darin

I never let on I was a comedian. I never acted out. It was really important to me, like, to not be Patch Adams.…

— Ken Jeong

A lot of people have got into it because of money, but true comedians do it because they can't help it, and feel slightly…

— Peter Kay

Here's a message to all the employers out there reading this: if a comedian comes to you having given up comedy and wants a…

— Sean Lock

Being a professional comedian is doing it right and good, when you don't feel like it.

— Franklyn Ajaye

I think it's important for comedians to do our little part. I don't do it carelessly. I do it thoughtfully. I don't try to…

— Jeff Ross

I think a lot of comedians sometimes pretend to find the job more taxing than it is.

— Dani Levy

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