Cigarette Quote by Garry Marshall

I remember I used to go to The Laugh Factory and just goof off onstage, and then I'd see Dane Cook. He did a…

— Jay Mohr

There's a comedian, Paul Reiser, very funny. I remember reading his book when I first started comedy and I remember laughing like I was…

— Nate Bargatze

Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the…

— Jerry Seinfeld

When I used to watch comedians with my dad, he laid it all out for me. He wanted to be a comedian himself, and…

— Roseanne Barr

In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing.

— Patton Oswalt

I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never…

— Louie Anderson

I remember Johnny Carson laughing effusively when I made my 'Tonight' show debut in the early 1970's as part of a sketch comedy group…

— Fred Willard

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

When I was a comic in the 1980s, I was on the road somewhere every day, and I'd get back to the hotel, and…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I remember being captivated by Steve Coogan and Eddie Izzard and wanting to do what they did. That generation of comedians was my main…

— Lee Mack

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

— Paul Merton