Gas Quote by David Zucker

It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln.…

— Louis C. K

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

— Joseph Bologna

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…

— Demetri Martin

In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.

— Ed O'Neill

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers…

— Florenz Ziegfeld

Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.

— Hal Roach

I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff.

— Paul Morrissey

I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a little bit…

— Pete Holmes

When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould.…

— Jasper Carrott

There are way too many comedians now.

— Dani Levy

The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe…

— Judd Apatow

Jerry Seinfeld, he was doing Letterman show all the time, so he kind of had an excuse, that people know the jokes already. He…

— Dave Chappelle