Comedian Quote by Tommy Chong Download Open image “What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.” — Tommy Chong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comedian Comedian Wasn Made Me More Poet Poetry Really Really Songwriter Songwriter Songwriter Poet
I consider myself a bit of a comedian. I write a lot of humorous songs. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like I was allowed to be a songwriter. I thought I had to be a really intelligent lyricist, like a poet. — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing. — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so… — Jewel Copy Share Image
I left home to become a singer and didn't realise when I turned comedian. — Kapil Sharma Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed. — Bebe Rexha Copy Share Image
I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself. — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I've always known, all my life, that I was going to be something special. I never knew what it was, but I always had… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
People try to put ownership on things: 'That's mine, that's my joke.' No such thing. Like if you tripped or stumbled and people go,… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
We survived Nixon and Reagan and George Bush, and so we can survive anything that comes along. — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya. — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
I look on everything with a very optimistic eye. Because I'm a body builder by trade, you know, that was my intent all my… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good. — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was… — Tommy Chong Copy Share Image
Marijuana grows everywhere in the world. And it really is currency, if you think about it. — Tommy Chong 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
If I had a choice, I would rather watch a comedian not involve themselves in politics at all but be hilarious than someone who… — Jon Richardson 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
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