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Author:Bobby Moynihan

“I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are.”

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Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“Genuinely love doing standup and I'm a comedian first, so for me what makes my standup special is the fact that I don't have to adapt or adjust. I am who I am. I appeal to everyone, hence in the movie doing a world tour.”

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Author:Kevin Hart

“Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

“I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.”

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Author:Robert Wyatt

“It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an improviser. And then you think about it for a minute, and I smartened up and realized that the only way to sustain a career is to generate your own material. Or to be in control of your career as best you can. And in allowing yourself to do that it opens up a whole new world of possibilities. And then you're like "Oh, producing is a thing."”

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Author:Rob Corddry

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

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Author:Aziz Ansari

“In my first stand-up acts there wasn't material even. You know, I'd go on stage and cry and read a Dear John letter or gut fish on stage. I could be odd - and it's what interested me as a comedian.”

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Author:Bobcat Goldthwait

“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.”

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Author:Barry Crimmins

“I think a lot of people think that we [comedians] are nerveless people in the theatre, that we don't feel that kind of terror which traditionally anyone who has to do any public speaking feels. It's worse for actors, because our livelihood depends on it.”

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Author:Barry Humphries

“Magicians are definitely more arrogant. They're kind of like "Abra Kadabra, you're an idiot," they don't let you in on the joke. Comedians, you're always in on the joke unless it's Andy Kaufman.”

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Author:Jim Carrey

“I've always loved comedy and growing up it was the comedies that I really responded to. So I don't know how it turned out that once I started acting that I started getting a certain kind of role, that I never saw myself as growing up, so I really love when I get an opportunity to play a [comedian] role.”

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Author:Steve Buscemi

“I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.”

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Author:John Cleese

“When I was seven, I said, "I want to act." When I was 10, I realized that films exist, and I wanted to be in them. Not a comedian, I wanted to be a dramatic actor. Films just seemed such fun, and like such a great thing to do.”

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“I think British humour is very cruel, and gay humour is very cruel. I think the two go hand-in-hand and that's why they mix so well in England. I think that's why you get so many gay comedians in England that are accepted so well because British humour is very cruel. I love it.”

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Author:Jason Sellards

“If you get too well-known, you can never be a comedian's comedian, it just won't sit well. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine with that label.”

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“Comedy is like a very cokey, druggy sugar. You get hits of comedy, and it's very, "More, give me more of that stuff," because serotonin is being released in the brain. So it's basically, everyone becomes serotonin junkies, and we are serotonin dealers. And that's what being a comedian is about.”

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Author:Eddie Izzard

“Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.”

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Author:Brian Eno

“Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works.”

“It is hard to get mad at Donald Trump for saying stupid things, in the same way you don't get mad at a monkey when he throws poop at you at the zoo... What does get me angry is the ridiculous, disingenuous defending of the poop-throwing monkey.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer ---- Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the kind words about meBut the insights you have for the Comedy racket.You're Barbara Hershey, we are beaches.”

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Author:Taylor Negron

“Because I'm around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is 'You've Been Framed!' It satisfies all of us. It's universal, and we all laugh a lot.”

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Author:Nina Conti

“Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are, they're not dark and dangerous.”

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Author:Patton Oswalt

“There's nothing better for a comedian than adversity.”

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Author:Jeff Dunham

“A lot of stand-up specials for cable are meant to glorify the comedian. They put you in a really beautiful theater, and sometimes they even blow a little smoke in there to make it misty and sweet. They make the guy look like he's a big rock star. But comedy's not really glamorous. It doesn't enhance comedy for it to look good.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“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.”

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Author:Eugene Levy

“[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.”

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Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy.”

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Author:Jordan Peele

“I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.”

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Author:Rob Corddry

“You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact with the audience.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value of them. I know what they can do.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“Men who think deeply appear to be comedians in their dealings with others because they always have to feign superficiality in order to be understood.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The tragic hero prefers death to prudence. The comedian prefers playing tricks to winning. Only the villain really plays to win.”

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Author:Mason Cooley

“Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects humor as a contaminating element wherever found. America is a nation of comics and comedians; nevertheless, humor has no stature and is accepted only after the death of the perpetrator.”

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Author:E. B. White

“Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“I'm a comedian first. I've learned how to act. I just draw on life experiences and that's how I've learned. I didn't take classes or anything. I don't need no classroom.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“To be No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, well, that's alarming. Having been a stand-up comedian, I think it's surprising to a lot of people that I had the insight I had.”

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Author:Steve Harvey

“I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?”

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Author:Dave Chappelle

“The funniest thing a comedian can do is not do it.”

Can Do Comedian

Author:W. C. Fields

“Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.”

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Author:Jake Kasdan

“Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.”

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Author:Don Rickles

“If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.”

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Author:Tracy Morgan

“Every comedian works differently. Some comedians might do just observational stuff and they don't do anything personal, and other people.. everything they do is personal and they don't do any observational stuff at all. There's no right or wrong, it's just that everybody picks their own approach.”

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Author:Brian Regan

“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!”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Brian Regan

“The only way I'd want to do something in television would be if it was about how I think as a comedian. I'd need to be able to be a creator. That's what I enjoy - I enjoy coming up with comedy, so it'd be very difficult for me to be sitting in a room and have somebody come in and say, "Here's your script! Learn these lines!" That's not fun. At least not for me.”

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Author:Brian Regan

“A lot of times people will have after-parties or try and host an event for comedians, and they misunderstand us. They think it should be wild and crazy, or loud music, and comedians are typically pretty mellow people that just want to talk to each other. I think it would be highly unusual to find comedians who want to be at a loud, crowded party.”

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Author:Tig Notaro

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