Distinction Quote by Bobby Darin

I have a very high respect for professional comedians. What they do astonishes me. You have to be really smart and absorb everything, repackage…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It often seems that, for whatever strange reasons, comedians, in addition to their formal performances, have more comic experiences in real life than other…

— Steve Allen

[Being a good comedian] is a skill, but it's also a weird thing that only certain people can do. I always equate it to…

— Nick Swardson

comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny.

— Staton Rabin

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

— Sandra Bernhard

I think I'm known mostly for comedy because most of the work I've done is comedy and that is in turn because most of…

— Ranvir Shorey

You have comedians who just do jokes, and they're called comics, not comedians. You have comedians that do bits - a person that has…

— Charlie Murphy

Comics know that they do best. They might not be best to rewrite to another person's comedy, but they know what is best for…

— Adam DeVine

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

— Dick Gregory

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or…

— Jim Gaffigan

I've never considered myself a comedian. I'm a comedic actor.

— Samuel L. Jackson

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

— Kristen Wiig