Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Newhart

One of the first things you ever learn as a stand-up is don't show fear.

Bob Newhart

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.

Bo Burnham

I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.

Busy Philipps

Even though I do a more traditional type of being funny on television, I still know a lot of comedians and stand-ups and improv actors.

Carrot Top

When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

Jamie Foxx

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

Mike Birbiglia

When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.

Demetri Martin

I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.

Bruce Forsyth

He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.

Brian Regan

I wasn't expecting to really draw in respected comedians but it's going to happen along the way and I'm truly honored by that.

I'm in awe of comedians that do things that I can't do, whether it be a one-liner comic like Anthony Jeselnik, whether it be social issues commentary, whether it be - hell, Carrot Top. I can't be Carrot Top. I can't.

I don't know why you'd go to a comedian and say, "You know what? You have a large menu of items, but this one thing I did not like and therefore, you should be shut down. You should cease to make a living and you should be thrown out in the streets."

Comedian makes the statement that just isn't true.

I don't get all the anger that is thrown at comedians.

Bobby Darin

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.

Denis Leary

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.

Dennis Miller

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian.

Aziz Ansari

Comedians don't have hits. You have to have a whole brand-new hour. You have no hits to rely on.

Dana Carvey

That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50.

Miranda Hart

I am pleased to say that I am not a tortured comedian - I laugh a lot. My twenties weren't particularly happy, but it's the same for a lot of people. In your thirties, you realise that your life and your worries are really insignificant, and you have to force yourself to be more positive and take each day as a gift.

Tracy Morgan

Comedians are the monkeys of acting. When you go to the zoo, everybody loves the monkey exhibit.

Bob Newhart

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

Bob Newhart

For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.

Bob Newhart

When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.

Fred Allen

When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

Adam Sandler

I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.

Adam Carolla

I'm a comedian, not a politician.

Jeff Ross

It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

Jeff Ross

Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.

Colin Quinn

My perception is that Jerry was a stand-up comedian for years and years,

Allan Carr

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.

Allan Carr

I didn't really want to be a comedian.

Trevor Noah

The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that.