Big break Quote by Elayne Boosler

I've never done a comedy club in my life. It's weird because I don't have the same background as most comics. I don't have…

— Billy Connolly

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose…

— Arvind Ethan David

By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're…

— Amy Hoggart

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred…

— Marc Maron

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll…

— Dylan Moran

What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but…

— Lewis Black

There's a lot of comic book inspiration and stuff I do that people probably won't recognize. I grew up in the '70s, so there's…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

When I was in the business as a young performer, it was a recognised fact that when you got to 60 you were out,…

— Bruce Forsyth

I go to ComicCon every year, but it's in a work capacity. I'm a legitimate fan of comics, and I have been since I…

— Clark Duke

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

— Andrew Denton

You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television.

— Allison Mack

I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super dark and…

— Genndy Tartakovsky