Comedian Quote by Kingsley Amis Download Open image “It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.” — Kingsley Amis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comedian Hats Ifs Letdowns
Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat. — Robert Smith Surtees Copy Share Image
I always think stand-up is the most brutal environment for a comedian. — Dominic Holland Copy Share Image
You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact with the… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“No surprise. I was the only one at Dave and Bubba’s not wearing a Ragland Rattlers cap. Talk about feeling disloyal. And uncomfortable. My… — Rachel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street. — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
There aren't many opportunities to be a comedian on TV anymore, it's a lot of panel shows. You don't get much stand-up. — Richard Herring Copy Share Image
If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay. — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the ground. If… — Jimmy Carr Copy Share Image
I think comedians get too much credit or too much criticism for the style of comedy they do, and they generally do the style… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“{Rogers} sexual aim is “to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature who is the opposite of… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Jake did a quick run-through of women in his mind, not of the ones he had known or dealt with in the past few… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“I don't allow people of your sort to stand in my way. That's what you're leaving out of account. I'm having Christine because it's… — Kingsley Amis 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
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
For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
