Comedian Quotes - Page 33

• I try not to focus on politics too much - I would never be described as a hugely political woman - but the fact of the matter is, just me being a female, immigrant, stand-up comedian, single-mother ... that is political. We still live in a world where a woman with a voice is a political gesture.

  Katherine Ryan

  Focus, Political, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's all this evidence that we leave now of our life, especially if you're a comedian or an entertainer. I mean, I guess that was always kind of true, but now there's a lot more. We leave a deeper trail. Like a snail trail of our memories, you know? But it's not really about arousal. It's about artistic droppings.

  Moshe Kasher

  Memories, Mean, Artistic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.

  Corey Feldman

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "Corey Feldman Talks New Album, Sex Cults & 80s Movies | EXCLUSIVE". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. August 13, 2016.

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• I think the role of comedy in your life should supersede anything and everything negative. Just by virtue of the fact that you have to be funny, you can't afford to focus on the negative. As a comedian, your challenge is to turn negative stuff into positive energy. You should be able to hear anything that sounds bad, that people normally wouldn't laugh at, and make it feel funny to you. No one should be able to deter you, once you have your mind set on comedy. Your survival as a comedian should be as natural as breathing. I need to breathe and I consider my career my air.

  DeRay Davis

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• No matter how you feel, you've got to be able to laugh at yourself. If you can laugh at Donald Trump, then you better be able to laugh at yourself, too. For us as comedians, we have to point out what's funny.

  Michael Che

  Laughing, Laugh At Yourself

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There's a very fine line between political comedian and activist, and I don't really think I fall over into the activist category.

  Samantha Bee

  Fall, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• That's the thing that most people don't realize. In real life, comedians aren't funny. They save it. They save it up.

  Michael Showalter

  Real, People, Real Life

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Really good comedians, you know, when they go on stage, they don't really care what the audience - they're fearless, you know? They're so comfortable that they don't care. They don't have that neediness where they need the laughs.

  Aziz Ansari

  Laughing, Fearless, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When you become a comedian a lot of stuff that made you laugh before just stops. You stop watching your old cartoons you used to watch. You stop reading the funnies. It's like working at a strip club. You don't come home and turn on the Playboy Channel.

  Chris Rock

  Reading, Home, Laughing

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• To be a comedian: Make peace with the fact that you will never be as funny as a baby falling over.

  Chris Ramsey

  Baby, Fall, Making Peace

  Source: in.askmen.com

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• At first, it was really weird after being a touring stand-up comedian that wears just jeans and a shirt. But now, it's almost like when you go from Clark Kent to Superman: "All right, I've got to go put on a suit and interview Justin Trudeau." It feels like it's part of the process. Oddly enough, I've been in enough places - they sometimes send you to places that are a bit scary - that I know how to run in a suit. Like, run fast.

  Hasan Minhaj

  Running, Scary, Sometimes

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

  Norman Seeff

  People, Challenges, Performing

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• From my experience working with comedians, there is that competitive aspect. With actors, for instance, they don't want to look competitive even if they are, whereas comedians, I think, are openly happy to play on the idea that they all compete with each other to get the laughs. There's something about comedy, I think, that encourages that. There's this kind of schoolboy sense of wanting to top the other person that we play off of to show them competing for who's smarter or cleverer.

  Michael Winterbottom

  Thinking, Laughing, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.

  Larry King

  People, Comedy, My Favorite

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What's the good thing about being an actor, you can do more things. Not just being a comedian, not going overboard but expressing myself within the confines of a film.

  Brandon T. Jackson

  Film, Overboard, Good Things

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have a very high respect for professional comedians. What they do astonishes me. You have to be really smart and absorb everything, repackage it, bring it back to the person, and make them laugh at themselves. I can make people laugh during my talks because they didn't come to have me make them laugh. It's added value. So my job is way easier than that of a professional comic.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Smart, People, Laughing

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I do make a concscious effort to be genuine among other comedians. If I write something or try something that doesn't feel like me, I stop doing it.

  Brent Weinbach

  Writing, Effort, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• A lot of comics claimed to be political comedians when George W. Bush was in office just by calling him an idiot. For me, Obama is actually more interesting comically, because not everybody can figure it out.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Interesting, Office, Political

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in the room. Already you can see audiences are pushing back, but we're the ones who really can take it more than anybody.

  Colin Quinn

  Instinct, Existence, Grain

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening.

  Ben Miller

  People, Laughing, Comedy

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Whatever happens in life can happen on the stage, but as a comedian you should always be clear what your target is. It's fine to be gratuitously tasteless if that's what you are intending to do. It's that old line: I don't defend what a comedian might say but I defend to the death his right to say it.

  Ben Miller

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• I came upon whatever I'm doing organically. I didn't study anything. I don't have any real aspirations other than to connect with somebody, and to have the conversation be genuine. That's the best that can happen. Even if it only happens for 10 minutes in an episode. But I think what people forget is that you don't have to try to get a comedian to be funny. Comedians are innately funny. That the real challenge of talking to them is to get them talking about real things and then see where they need to be funny. And let them do that on their own volition.

  Marc Maron

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: music.avclub.com

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• Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.

  Eddie Griffin

  Psychology, Comedy

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• I think that laughter is very close to terror and horror. Maybe that's just me, but that sort of all - over rush that happens when you are either laughing or terrified or weeping...? I think that comedians, in and of themselves, make other people laugh because they aren't necessarily the happiest people in the world. So they know a lot about dark things.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Laughter, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was. We formed sort of a laser beam of protest. Every painter, every writer, every stand-up comedian, every composer, every novelist, every poet aimed in the same direction. Afterwards, the power of this incredible new weapon dissipated.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Artist

  Source: www.sharedhost.progressive.org

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