Anxiety Quote by Josh Gondelman

Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

— Robyn Hitchcock

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang out with…

— Rose Matafeo

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

Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.

— Al Franken

I think you develop strong instincts when you're a comedian. You have to pay your bills by making people laugh every six seconds... or…

— Byron Allen

I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in…

— Rachel Bloom

When I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care.

— Jessica Alba

Comedy has traditionally been about fear of embarrassment.

— Marco Roth

Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.

— Stephen Fry

Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.

— Ben Miller

I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

Sometimes, when comedians get success, they don't do as much weird stuff as they normally do.

— Thomas Middleditch