Bars Quote by Doug Stanhope

I've often been accused of being the comic's comic. It's a bad business model when your fans are the people who get in free.

— Dana Gould

When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at…

— Sarah Silverman

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

— Sandra Bernhard

If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

— Alexander Pope

If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it…

— Robert Orben

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer…

— P. J. O'Rourke

No one really needs to defend drinking. That's something that frustrates me as a comic: I have to play clubs where selling booze runs…

— Doug Benson

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat…

— Winston Churchill

I'm not a communist, just a media theorist.

— Douglas Rushkoff

As a comic, just be what you are.

— Nate Bargatze

I once read that in vaudeville, it was often the straight guy who got paid more than the comic because that's the tougher job.…

— Michael Dirda