Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians..
They're the darkest people I know, comedians..
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit..
Good comedians are great philosophers..
We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves..
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second..
Genuinely love doing standup and I'm a comedian first, so for me what makes my standup special is the fact that I don't have to adapt or adjust. I am….
I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian..
It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat..
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. T….
With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs..
A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My stand-up isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everyth….
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 couldn't be a comedian..
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious..
They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen th….
Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions..
In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be ….
For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because ….
I'm a comedian, not a politician..
What you have to do as a comedian, that I suppose is quite difficult, is you have to end it. All the stuff that I've ever done in the past - all the ….
I thought I better warn you that I am not one of those politically correct comedians, but it turns out that also I'm not really that racist, homophob….