Baseball Quote by Mickey Mantle

Garry Shandling in particular - really had the concept. He really knew it, and it was done so lovingly. He would go beyond the…

— Jeffrey Tambor

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was a huge fan of Steve Martin, as everyone I knew in comedy was.

— Martin Short

My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was…

— Stephen Colbert

When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould.…

— Jasper Carrott

Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could make my…

— Rob Reiner

Woody Allen - nobody has been a better joke teller than him - and even in his great films, it's always coming out of…

— Brett Gelman

I find Billy Eichner to be hilarious, though I also imagine that for many, a little goes a long way. Billy provides a kind…

— Michael Schur

I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every…

— Steve Finley

My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

— Al Franken

There's a comedian, Paul Reiser, very funny. I remember reading his book when I first started comedy and I remember laughing like I was…

— Nate Bargatze

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really…

— Demetri Martin