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“You saw a lot of guys, especially in the early '90s, whose acts were a pitch for a sitcom. A lot of them were very funny, but there's nothing worse than watching comedians or musicians who are up there and are doing something they're not interested in.”

Guy Saws Musician Comedian Not Interested Sitcom

Author:Patton Oswalt

“With a comedian, it's the opposite. You put that album out, and they've heard it. If they're coming out to see you, you'd better be doing new stuff. There's always a tiny part of the audience that want to hear certain bits of yours, or they've brought friends to see you, and they've told them about some of your bits. Then maybe you should do them.”

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Author:Patton Oswalt

“The key to comedy is commitment - if you're afraid, you shouldn't be a comedian.”

Ifs Comedy Keys Commitment Comedian

Author:Nick Swardson

“I suppose in our culture - in our lifetime - we've always enjoyed people who tell it straight. We like our presidents, our comedians, and our actors to do that . . . It's funny. You say that people prefer a tasteful formalism - as opposed to an oppressive formalism - but I do feel very strongly that form follows function.”

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Author:Oliver Stone

“I have a pretty fresh delivery. I feel that I am probably more of a dramatic actor, but I'm also a comedian. Every day I am polishing up my skills.”

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Author:Tone Bell

“Every single comedian in Canada is now living in the United States.”

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Author:Tucker Carlson

“Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.”

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Author:Al Franken

“As a comedian I don't think they look at me as a sexual person but I can see where with actors it would be a little difficult for them because its part of their mystique, it gives them an easier time to change characters and people aren't going oh we have a gay actor, their gay so I don't know if I'm gunna buy this guy with this girl, its weird, I don't think it's fair; it's only done with us, it seems, like they just accept everyone as straight and go along with it and then its oh their gay and make a big deal out of it.”

“I'm a comedian so I'm not waiting around for someone to write a part for me. I don't have to wait for somebody else to create my next job; I have the ability to basically write my own ticket.”

Writing Jobs Next Waiting My Own Ability Comedian Tickets Waiting Around

Author:Wanda Sykes

“Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“Comedy is a noble art. And every comedian who does anything is serving a noble purpose.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“It used to be trained professionals doing animation and they were great. Now they have celebrities and famous actors doing the voices, but that does not always work. But I think this film turned out really well, partly because the three of us (me, Ray and Denis) are comedians who are used to doing solo acts and doing certain types of voices. The three of us are New York guys, we all came up the same way in the profession and we are all edgy and enjoy doing family movies. It was a good combination I think.”

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Author:John Leguizamo

“Philosophers, comedians, and tipsy birthday celebrants all have proposed theories about why time seems to move increasingly swiftly as we grow older. But the most disconcerting rationale is not a theory. It is the undeniable realization that every day we live constitutes a smaller percentage of the accrued experience with which we awaken each morning, and therefore seems proportionately a smidgen quicker and smaller than the day before.”

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Book:Apollo's Fire: A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day

Source: Apollo's Fire: A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day

“The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form.”

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Author:Bill Hicks

“I don't want to follow comedians because I don't want to see what they're thinking about, 'cause then maybe I won't stumble across a thought maybe I had about the same subject.”

Thinking Want Causes Subjects Comedian

Author:Nick Thune

“I don't know if people really care about my opinion on things or how I come up with things, and maybe that's an insecurity and why we're comedians in the first place, so I think with that you keep doing the material, you keep trying to be funny cause you think that's all you're wanted for.”

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Author:Nick Thune

“When you're a comedian, you're just by yourself.”

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Author:Maria Bamford

“All comedians are preoccupied with one thing and with one thing only-themmm-selllves. It's a horrible lot in life.”

One Thing Horrible Comedian

Author:David Letterman

“Roxanne came along in '86, when I was doing a lot of stand-up. I auditioned for the movie, and of course I was a huge Steve Martin fan, so I really hoped I would get this part. I don't think there was any part in particular that I auditioned for. I just went in and talked with them. There were so many parts in there, and so many comedians ended up getting in that movie, playing different firemen and townspeople.”

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Author:Kevin Nealon

“I admire Cate Blanchett and Kate Winslet. I like a lot of comedians. I like Cameron Diaz - she's funny and has a very light spirit. That's quite rare nowadays. There are many actresses I admire.”

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Author:Catherine Deneuve

“Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.”

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Author:Virginia Postrel

“There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.”

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Author:W. Kamau Bell

“I'm a lot smarter and thoughtful of a comedian. This market is different than it was. You don't have to have cable to hear this comedy. It comes on a basic channel, and that's one of the biggest differences between now than when I first started.”

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Author:Joe Torry

“I'm more of an older school comedian so Tommy Davidson still makes me laugh a lot no matter how many times I've heard his jokes or not. He's just an animated comedian that I don't mind seeing over and over again.”

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Author:Joe Torry

“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.”

Stuff Hollywood Comedian

Author:Cedric the Entertainer

“Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes to folks who just started doing it. That's the beauty of comedy: it's close to a pure meritocracy.”

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Author:Ted Alexandro

“Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.”

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Author:Ted Alexandro

“Comedians can articulate some important and profound ideas that address a lot of the hypocrisy we're inundated with (in the media).”

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Author:Ted Alexandro

“Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.”

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Author:Ted Alexandro

“I've seen people who are not very likeable but hilarious. I think comedians get to a point where they know they're funny, so they don't care - in the sense that they know what they're doing. They have a skill.”

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Author:Ted Alexandro

“Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The beauty of standup is there is room for everyone, and years of performing in front of crowds will dictate what you can or can't do.”

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Author:Ted Alexandro

“Comedians act every night on stage, so they have great performing chops. They especially know how to play themselves, which is how we set 'Teachers Lounge' up.”

Knows Play Night Know How Teacher Stage Comedian Performing Every Night

Author:Ted Alexandro

“Dave Chappelle is about as gifted as it gets, as a performer and comedian. [...] It's always great to watch him work. He started around fourteen and he's in his forties now, so he's probably been doing it for close to thirty years. He's brilliant.”

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Author:Ted Alexandro

“I think there comes a time in any comedian's career where they can either coast or keep growing and evolving.”

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Author:Ted Alexandro

“Chris Rock went from a guy whose name you knew from SNL to a legendary comedian by working his ass off.”

Guy Names Rocks Ass Comedian Legendary Snl

Author:Ted Alexandro

“Louis CK went from a writer/comedian to winning Emmys for his own show because he works his ass off.”

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Author:Ted Alexandro

“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.”

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

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Author:Joseph Bologna

“I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.”

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Author:Christian Kane

“I am trying to work out what my taste is, comedy-wise. I look up to stand up comedians who appear to be telling the truth, but I don't mind if they are lying.”

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Author:Jessie Cave

“Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo. The Book of Woe is a profound, and profoundly entertaining, riff on malady, power, and truth. This book is for those of us (i.e. all of us) who've ever wondered what it means, and what's at stake, when we try to distinguish the suffering of the ill from the suffering of the human.”

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Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.”

“Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.”

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Book:Groucho And Me

Source: Groucho And Me

“I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.”

Thinking Common Talking Groups Politician Seeking Comedian Approval Narcissist

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“Working in comedies is not something I set out to do. But, I love it. I've taken some improv classes here and there, but I don't consider myself a comedian by any means.”

Mean Class Taken Comedy Comedian Here And There

Author:Erick Chavarria

“I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.”

Ifs Writing Done My Own Materials Jokes Video Comedian

Author:Laura Benanti

“It's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.”

Hard Comedy Comedian

Author:Jane Levy

“What do you call a comedian who runs for president? A trump card.”

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Author:Michael R. Burch

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