Careers Quote by Ted Alexandro

It takes many years to be a great comedian.

— Don Rickles

A comedian's career span is five or 10 years. I am lucky to have worked with so many distinguished actors and their grandsons.

— Ali

There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but…

— Bill Burr

A lot of the comedians nowadays just do comedy as a stepping stone. Take for example Dane Cook. The guy is huge. The main…

— Gabriel Iglesias

I think the fundamental issue with comedians is everyone wants to be a famous comedian. That's a really difficult thing to achieve in comedy.

— Andrew Santino

Turning into a full-fledged comedian involves a lot of hardships.

— Vivek

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

There are so few jobs for comedians on networks, that taxi TV and elevator TV and all this stuff are what I and every…

— Scott Rogowsky

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they…

— Ricky Gervais

I think for any comedian to come and get big laughs from a really tough, discerning, comedy-literate audience, it is the biggest stamp of…

— Omid Djalili

If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves.

— Judd Apatow

Never really intended to be a comedian, just sort of fell into that, but always wanted to be in show business, or something to…

— Doug Benson