Athletic Quote by Stephen Colbert

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit…

— Stephen Colbert

A lot of the comedians don't even tell the joke. Like only three tell the joke, the rest of them dissect it.

— Bob Saget

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

— David Steinberg

I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

— Bob Saget

The way I toe the line with comedy is I run jokes past people.

— Nicole Byer

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

— James Lipton

Comedy clubs sharpen a comic, they're like the gym for us, making us stronger, faster, funnier. Without them every comedy show would feel like…

— Nigel Ng

Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times.

— Mort Sahl

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

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

— John Leguizamo

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

— E. B. White