“It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains a roomful of people and then goes home to a lonely bedsit was unbelievably poignant for me because that was exactly what I was doing. I had periods of real loneliness.” PeopleRealHomeExistenceLonelinessPeriodsLonelyTwentiesComedianBizarreClichePoignant Author:Paul Merton
“I'm a standup comedian who gets to act. I'm never going to not do standup. I love doing it and when I go through periods where I'm doing a lot of acting work, I still do standup.” StillsActingPeriodsComedian Author:Bill Burr
“I think most comedians go through that (period), where you have to change or evolve. You don't want to just keep doing variations on the same themes. And, besides, it would look kinda creepy for a guy my age to be doing stuff that, like, a 20-year-old would do. 'Yeah, this is bullshit!' It's, like, 'Really? You don't have bigger concerns at this point in your life?'” ThinkingWantYearsLooksAgeGuyStuffPeriodsConcernBiggerYeahEvolveComedianThemeBullshitVariationCreepy Author:Patton Oswalt
“There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.” KnowsEnoughDifficultCareersPeriodsDrawsWindowComedianGood EnoughTicketsNobody Knows Author:Bill Burr
“When you start in the childhood period, when you begin to form a comic sense, it was the radio comedians - from the last days of radio and the first days of television. And Spike Jones. And the Marx Brothers. They represented anarchy. They took things that were nice and decent and proper, and they tore them to shreds. That attracted me.” FirstsLastsFormNiceChildhoodTelevisionBrotherPeriodsRadioComicComedianDecentAnarchyLast DayMarx Brothers Author:George Carlin