Comedian Quote by Michael Showalter

As far as I can tell, comedians are pretty serious people, and that's why they make fun of things all of the time.

— Maria Bamford

In real life, comedians aren't funny.

— Michael Showalter

People don't realize it's not just about being funny, and they don't know how perceptive a comedian needs to be about human nature. You…

— Erik Griffin

It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously…

— Stephen Fry

Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny…

— Jon Lovitz

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

— James Lipton

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

— Robyn Hitchcock

Comedians are great at laughing at themselves, we really are. We mock everyone else and we can take it as well.

— Paul Whitehouse

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're…

— Jane Levy

Some comedians make a marvellous living doing material that is completely predictable, that reminds people of things that they already know or jokes that…

— Richard Herring

A lot of people end up being comedians because, well really, they're just Chandler Bing at heart. We mask our emotions with comedy throughout…

— Chris McCausland

The whole point of real comedy is that you can say something that is true, and by being funny, you can make it tolerable…

— Dave Rubin