"It takes many years to be a great…" — Don Rickles

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• I don't think I was a good comedian. — Brigitte Bardot
• I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask… — Roseanne Barr
• When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be… — Roseanne Barr
• As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of… — Elayne Boosler
• I wasn't funny as a kid. I remember enjoying comedians, but I never understood it was a job choice or… — Elayne Boosler
• There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb. — Elayne Boosler
• It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm… — Elayne Boosler
• The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet. — Jo Brand
• Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley… — Jo Brand
• Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to… — Albert Brooks
• I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. — Lenny Bruce
• The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. — Lenny Bruce

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