Comedians Quote by Jeff Ross

Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That's always how we're going to…

— Jeff Ross

All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.

— David Letterman

My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate…

— Ben Miller

It's odd because some actors are very scared of comedians.

— Robert Webb

I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror…

— Barry Humphries

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents,…

— William Saroyan

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder…

— Jimmy Carr

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

— Bill Burr

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

— Mel Brooks

Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are, they're not dark and dangerous.

— Patton Oswalt

Comedians are the nearest to suicide.

— Lawrence Durrell

Most comedians are borderline psychotic. It's what makes their work interesting.

— Julian Barratt