Comedian Quotes - Page 29

• Even when you hear about a comedian getting married, among comedians, we're always kind of like, what are they doing?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Married, Kind, Getting Married

  "Comic Jim Gaffigan On Stand-Up, Faith And Opening For The Pope". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 24, 2015.

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• I always remember writing a page of jokes for a comedian and handing it to him backstage at a club and he read it and then took his cigarette lighter and lit the page on...

  Garry Marshall

  Writing, Clubs, Pages

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

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• One of the things I used to dream of is that if I could just be funny like Red Skelton, if I could be a comedian like Red Skelton - that's what I watched on TV - then maybe I would have friends. I just remember that if I told stories to my friends, they listened. And in my family, with nine people talking at the same time, it's really hard to get people to listen to you. We were all craving attention.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Dream, Talking, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.

  Kim Coles

  Laughter, Spreading Love, Would Be

  Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I don't think comedians take advantage of the fact that television and film are visual mediums.

  Eric Andre

  Thinking, Television, Facts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job I will ever, ever have. There is nothing that could be harder. I mean, when you combine the amount of writing that has to be done - sharp writing - with the fact that you then take it to the street and improvise with both celebrities who have no idea what's going to happen and real people who are not actors or comedians who don't even know I'm about to talk to them... It's lightning in a bottle every time.

  Billy Eichner

  Jobs, Real, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We live in a fun time with so many ways to express yourself, you would be crazy to be a comedian and not check them all out.

  Sarah Silverman

  Fun, Crazy, Would Be

  "Comedian Sarah Silverman". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.mrt.com. March 27, 2011.

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• In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.

  Sarah Silverman

  People, Sticks, Made

  "Sarah Silverman walks the blurry lines of sarcasm". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.montereyherald.com. March 29, 2011.

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• I did get good enough to get on HBO's Young Comedians Special, but I certainly wasn't the person who got launched off of HBO's Young Comedians Special. That would be Ray Romano that year. I had some semi-intelligent jokes, but when people would see me, they would think, "Oh, that's a good writer." No one would ever have said, "Oh, that's a good performer."

  Judd Apatow

  Intelligent, Thinking, Hbo

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• I stand by everything I said. I absolutely can defend my material, and I take issue with people who say, "It's just shock value. It's not even funny." I disagree. There's different ways to be funny and to be a comedian.

  David Cross

  Issues, People, Different

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'm not very funny in real life. I used to want to be a comedian when I was 13, 14, 15, till I saw "Death Of A Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock.

  Gene Wilder

  Real, Want, Saws

  "Gene Wilder Dies From Complications Of Alzheimer's At Age 83". "Morning Edition" with Bob Mondello, www.npr.org. August 30, 2016.

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• 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."

  Brad Williams

  Should, Menus, Streets

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• It's very confusing to me why people take comedians so seriously.

  Brad Williams

  People, Confusing

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Half the time, you go on any one of these news sites, whether it be a Yahoo or a Google, and one of the top headlines is always, "Did a comedian go too far?" or "Comedian offends." It's like, "Really? Comedian?" A person that's supposed to make funny and make silly and historically was the only person who was allowed to make fun of the king? We're the ones that you're taking seriously?

  Brad Williams

  Kings, Fun, Silly

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Comedian makes the statement that just isn't true.

  Brad Williams

  Statements

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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

  Brad Williams

  Thrown

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Freedom of speech does not mean that you have to agree with everything that a comedian says, but that comedian should have the freedom to be able to try to make that funny. It's the attempt that I'm trying to defend so hard, no necessarily the execution.

  Brad Williams

  Mean, Should Have, Freedom Of Speech

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• 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.

  Brad Williams

  Issues, One Liner, Hell

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• The personal boundaries, I think for comedians they're a little bit different anyway, but I think people - feel free to do stuff - It's interesting with comedians because when we walk on stage, oftentimes we're talking about ourselves for an hour and we're talking about very intimate details, so after hearing us for an hour, a lot of people feel very comfortable with us because they feel like they know us and they're our friends because we just told them our innermost secrets and details of our lives for an hour. What they forget is we know absolutely nothing about the audience.

  Brad Williams

  Thinking, Talking, People

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• When a soldier of the night's watch dies they say, "And now his watch is over." That's what they say when a comedian dies. They go, "And now his tour is done."

  Brad Williams

  Night, Soldier, Watches

  "Interview with comedian Brad Williams". Interview with Michelle Tompkins, thecelebritycafe.com. September 1, 2016.

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• For aspiring comedians? Don't listen to me. Just go on stage and do what you think is funny.

  Bill Burr

  Thinking, Goes On, Stage

  Interview with Riley Coven, www.smudailycampus.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Before I even knew what stand up was, I tried to make people laugh at school because that was how I made friends, so I think that's how I got drawn into comedy and obviously I was just some kid at school being silly, so the first time I saw a professional comedian and how smooth and funny the person was I totally got into standup and I would say obviously Richard Pryor was the guy. He's the greatest of all time and then George Carlin, Sam Kinison, Bill Cosby. It's so weird to bring up his name now but leaving out his off-stage antics... you could learn a lot from him.

  Bill Burr

  Silly, School, Kids

  Source: www.smudailycampus.com

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• I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they were laughing even though I didn't speak their language.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Russia, Laughing, Ships

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Humor can be a great way to lift spirits and relate with soon-to-be high school grads. Whether you're in need of a funny senior year quote for a card, your yearbook, or a gift, you can use this list of funny graduation quotes by famous leaders and comedians to get inspired. To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.

  George W. Bush

  Senior, School, Yearbook

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