Above Quote by Jasper Carrott

I'm sure when alternative comedy started, before which - Billy Connolly aside - standup was essentially a person being racist and sexist onstage, there…

— Nish Kumar

The first comedians I became fascinated with were the Marx brothers. I couldn't get enough of them. Later in life, I thought, "Well, maybe…

— Judd Apatow

Richard Pryor - he had stories, he had characters, he had short jokes, and he had bits. He had all those things. Eddie Murphy…

— Charlie Murphy

For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because…

— Ishmael Reed

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

— Anonymous

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers…

— Florenz Ziegfeld

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

A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge. The main…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff.

— Paul Morrissey

I think the best comedy is tragicomic. Yeah, I suppose if you were to look at everything I've done, there is a bit of…

— Sharon Horgan

I have some friends who are comedians but not many.

— Frankie Boyle

What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in…

— Colin Quinn