Comedians Quotes

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

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

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.

The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry.

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens.

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.

I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.

I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

I know a lot about Jewish comedians.

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.

If you think something's funny, go with that. Most comedians pull jokes from a place of honesty.

I love comedians. They're my community.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much.