Comedian Quotes

• Keep laughing. As long as you’re laughing you still have hope.

  

  Moe Howard
  • inspirational
  • Laughing
  • Having

• The more you work in this business as a comedian, the closer you get to just being yourself onstage, on camera, the more well received you are.

  

  Nikki Glaser
  • Camera
  • Comedian
  • Onstage

• I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

  

  Eugene Levy
  • Character
  • Jokes
  • Comedian

• I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Acting
  • Stills
  • Periods

• We're shaking up a format, which I think is always a good thing. The thing about [2011 Oscar hosts] James [Franco] and Anne [Hathaway] is, they've both hosted Saturday Night Live, and they both did a good job at it. So they are accustomed to working with short rehearsal time, and live, lots of pressure, rewrites, things like that. They can make quick changes, which is very advantageous, and they're skilled comedians.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Host

• I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that good.' People think I'm funny, and I say, 'I'm not.'

  

  Carrot Top
  • People
  • Wish
  • Comedian

• When you do stuff as a comedian, Hollywood sees you as a comedian and so most of the calls I get are for a funny movie or something like that.

  

  Cedric the Entertainer
  • Movie
  • Funny
  • Hollywood

• Now, I want to explain something to you guys. I don't have an ending joke, because I don't tell jokes. I tell real-life stories and make them funny. So, I'm not like the average comedian. They have an ending joke; they always holler Peace! I'm out of here, and walk off stage. So, basically, when I get through performing on stage, I just walk off.

  

  Bruce Bruce
  • Stories
  • Jokes
  • Comedian

• And as Craig Brown - he's an English humorist, not a comedian but he's just a writer and humorist - I'm quite a fan of. I heard him talking in a rather similar way on the radio. He said I'm the sort of person - I can't remember exactly what he said, but it was rather interesting - he said I'm the sort of person that can be reduced to tears in an empty church and feel like I'm the CEO of the Devil's organization in a full one, and I tend to feel like that as well. I love empty churches and going into them looking around, but I'm not a churchgoer at all.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Remember
  • Interesting
  • Church

• Yes, I'm known as America's most genuine comedian.

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Comedian
  • Genuine
  • America's

• For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn't offer a level of creative fulfillment, it's oddly unappealing.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Writing
  • Creative
  • Comedian

• If there's anything I like better than honey and ketchup, it's baloney and whipped cream --- and we haven't got any!

  

  Moe Howard
  • Comedian
  • Havens
  • Whipped

• I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • Hurt
  • Cancer
  • Situation

• Phunny Business is a breezy, vivid, funny, star-studded and delightful valentine to comedy, entrepreneurship and the All-American impulse to make something out of nothing. The story of comedy club owner/inveterate dreamer Raymond Lambert and his heroic quest to create a safe, productive place for black stand-up comedians to hone their craft and find their voices isn't just a great Chicago story and a great comedy story: it's a flat-out great story, lovingly and engagingly told.

  

  Nathan Rabin
  • Black
  • Comedy
  • Dreamer

• I haven't taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.

  

  Winston Spear
  • Funny
  • Christmas
  • Lights

• If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Television
  • Comedian
  • Political Point

• Wrangel pretended to combat the Bolsheviks, Bolshevism is Jewry. In order to retain the favor of the Jews holding the real power in England, France and the United States, Wrangel showed to the Jews signs of his submission to them. Thereafter the Russian masses abandoned Wrangel as a traitor or as a comedian. It is impossible simultaneously to be an auxiliary of the Jew and an enemy of the Bolsheviki who are Jews. Be it incoherence or treason, Wrangel deserved the same fate as Denikin and he got it.

  

  Boris Brasol
  • Jews
  • Combat
  • Masses

• Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.

  

  Eddie Griffin
  • Science
  • Comedian
  • Stand-up comedy

• It's weird to sit as a comedian. Being still drives me crazy.

  

  Seth Meyers
  • Crazy
  • Being
  • Comedian

• The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Sick
  • Laughing
  • Tough

• Honestly, I never really thought I'd be a comedian. But I did take an aptitude test in seventh grade - and this is 100 percent true - I took an aptitude test in seventh grade, and it said in my best profession was a clown or a mime.

  

  Michelle Wolf
  • Profession
  • Percent
  • Honestly

• It's a great time to be a comedian because you've got so much more control. You can say what you want to. I think in the old days with the studio system the performer was a bit of an afterthought. You can be a wildcard on the internet. But if you put something on the internet once it's out there it's out there for life.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Want
  • Internet
  • Performers

• You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me.

  

  Bill Burr
  • People
  • Believe
  • Comedian

• I try to be careful not to put the cart before the horse. I try not to create comedy for other comedians to like. I want everybody to like it. I want audiences to like it, but I also want comedians to like it. I'm selfish. I want everybody to laugh!

  

  Brian Regan
  • Trying
  • Comedy
  • Horse

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