Comedian Quotes - page 11

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 could until now. (Ricky Gervais)
I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing. View quote
Eddie Izzard
If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay. View quote
Eddie Izzard
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. View quote
Camille Paglia
I didn't become a comedian to work this hard. View quote
Chelsea Handler
You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits! View quote
Joy Behar
Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken. View quote
Joe Rogan
Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much. View quote
Joe Rogan
I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy. View quote
Gabriel Iglesias
I'm a comedian who happens to be Latino. What's the difference? The difference is, my special will air on Comedy Central, not Telemundo. View quote
Gabriel Iglesias
I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes. (Paul Rudd)
When I said I was going to become a comedian, they all laughed. Well, they're not laughing now, are they? View quote
Bob Monkhouse
People always say: "You're a comedian, tell us a joke." They don't say: "You're an MP, tell us a lie." View quote
Bob Monkhouse
I think The Razor's Edge is a pretty good movie. But at the time, it was just as reviled as any other comedian doing a serious thing now. View quote
Bill Murray
To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it. View quote
John Leguizamo
Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God. View quote
Russell Brand
As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce...As a natural silent comedian Marilyn might possibly have qualified, with the proviso that she was not to be depended on to invent anything. But as a natural comedian in sound she had the conclusive disadvantage of not being able to speak. She was limited ineluctably to characters who rented language but could not possess it, and all her best roles fell into that category. She was good at being inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at being short. View quote
Clive James
As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year. View quote
Elayne Boosler
George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live. View quote
Denis Leary
I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right? View quote
Denis Leary
When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together. (Steve Coogan)
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian. View quote
Al Franken
I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck. View quote
Al Franken
I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian. View quote
Sam Kinison
There was this whole middle time that only Chris Rock came out of, you know, 10 years ago it was Chris and a few other people, but that's about it. Chris is in a class of his own; I don't see another comedian who I put in high regard as him. View quote
Bob Saget