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204 Comedians quotes by 175 unique authors
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If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves.
— Judd Apatow
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.
— Al Franken
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A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their…
— Gilbert Gottfried
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I love comedians. They're my community.
— Louis C. K.
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Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really…
— Louis C. K.
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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
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I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
— Jack Dee
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Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
— Jimmy Durante
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When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd…
— Dick Van Dyke
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Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what…
— Jimmy Fallon
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I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.
— Will Ferrell
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Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just…
— Will Ferrell
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Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.
— Mohsin Hamid
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Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into…
— Steve Harvey
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If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
— Eddie Izzard
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Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.
— Artie Lange
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I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be…
— Denis Leary
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From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on…
— Jerry Lewis
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Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.
— Rich Lowry
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Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is,…
— Norm MacDonald
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The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny…
— Demetri Martin
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I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs…
— Steve Martin
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I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional…
— Steve Martin
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If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.
— Olivia Munn
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