Best Comedian Sayings
484 Comedian quotes by 324 unique authors
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I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.
— Paul Rudd
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The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're…
— Leslie Nielsen
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Oh yeah, I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.
— Michael Gambon
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I really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian.
— Chris Tucker
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I am a comedian and you guys know whatever I say, I don't mean any of it.
— Jamie Foxx
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I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe…
— Gene Wilder
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It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so…
— Dudley Moore
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A comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny.
— Ed Wynn
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In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops…
— Billy Crystal
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I'm not a comedian. I'm not a show host. I'm a musician. That's why I've turned down offers to host the Grammy Awards and the…
— Michael Jackson
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The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a…
— Imogene Coca
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I remember, when I was in university I studied history, and there was this one major historian of the Third Reich, Ian Kershaw. And his…
— Sacha Baron Cohen
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all…
— Parker Posey
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The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry
— Martin Landau
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I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.
— Paul Merton
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I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty…
— Adele
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Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that -…
— Paul Provenza
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A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.
— Jeff Dunham
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I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.
— Todd Barry
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And I'm up while the dawn is breaking, even though my heart is aching. I should be drinking a toast to absent friends instead of…
— Elvis Costello
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Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power in England, France…
— Boris Brasol
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[Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was nominated for a Grammy for his spoken-word children's album] Halloween... Don't Give Up on Me.
— Jamie Lee Curtis
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Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a…
— Unknown Author
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Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.
— Andrew Mayne
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I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.
— Jon Stewart
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