Comedians Quotes
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You go to any Jay-Z concert, and he plays his hits. Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on. It's the hardest thing.
Aziz Ansari
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The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that.
Allen Toussaint
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When I became a standup comic, my hero, one of them, was Richard Pryor, and you know, I think that comedians, like, comedians talk about hacks, and what a hack is, is someone who does stuff that's not original.
Artie Lange
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In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.
Sarah Silverman
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If you know me, I don't live in this dismal world. I mean, I like to have fun. My friends are comedians.
Linda Blair
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I don't know what it would be like to actually play guitar. I've toured with a lot of comedians and it's never been like it is for a rock band.
Eugene Mirman
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One of the things I've found about SpongeBob's movement style is that, in addition to being animated and sort of stretching and squeezing, he's really based on the classic silent comedians, physical comedians.
Ethan Slater
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Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.
Andrew Mayne
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I like seeing comedians do stuff that I could never do.
Josh Thomas
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I'd like to help other comedians and when I get a little older I'd like to open up a nice comedy club that is straight classy, with a straight restaurant and a chef. The whole thing, red carpet, and treating people nice, for people to come back and have a good time. That's the kind of comedy club I want to open up.
Bruce Bruce
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Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
Norm MacDonald
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A lot of us comedians are drawn to the stage or show business or whatever because we didn't feel so great about ourselves, and we didn't know how to do anything about that, so we sought external approval.
Barry Crimmins
