Comedian Quote by George Jean Nathan Download Open image “The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.” — George Jean Nathan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comedian Real
The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his . — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
“I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.” — craig ferguson Copy Share Image
I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Comedians are great at laughing at themselves, we really are. We mock everyone else and we can take it as well. — Paul Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I'm not really a comedian, innit; I just naturally say things which people class as funny. — Big Narstie Copy Share Image
Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
A comedian needs more than just a sense of humour. He needs to observe everything around him. — Vivek Copy Share Image
Comedy is not about appearance; it's about rockin' a mike. Are they laughing? That's the only test. — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian. I'm an actor who just happens to be funny on occasion. — Anthony Anderson Copy Share Image
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . .… — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
At one point when I was very young, when I was first starting out, I thought, 'Well, one day I'll be able to put… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I like to turn up my collar when I'm leaving the theatre and feel like I'm some heroic comedian figure. — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
The only difference between a comedian and someone else? We need to make people laugh more. — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
When a soldier of the night's watch dies they say, "And now his watch is over." That's what they say when a comedian dies.… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
If I had a choice, I would rather watch a comedian not involve themselves in politics at all but be hilarious than someone who… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
I wouldn't mind gigging around the same era as Jesus, after he gives his speech about the meek and how blessed they are and… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
If someone doesn't like a comedian that's fine; a lot of people probably don't like my standup, and that's fine. But I think that… — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
It's very rare that an older comedian sort of slips into an old-school clunker. You know, you don't hear too much of that anymore. — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
I was a kid, and I would watch standup comics do the 'Tonight Show,' and if Johnny Carson liked you, he'd wave you over… — Jo Koy Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo.… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image