Comedian Quotes - Page 36

• When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Home, Kids, Trying

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• Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

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• When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.

  Will Ferrell

  Soccer, Player, Would Be

  "Duncan Riddle - America's Adult Soccer Ambassador". Interview with Diane Scavuzzo, goalnation.com. October 19, 2015.

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• I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

  Will Ferrell

  Taken

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• Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Actors, Comedy

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• If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it.

  Megan Fox

  Light, People, Accepting

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• My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett.

  Al Franken

  Dad, My Dad, Buddy

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• During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

  Al Franken

  Military, College, Careers

  Al Franken (2005). “The Truth (with jokes)”, p.60, Penguin

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• I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

  Al Franken

  Ideas, Years, Support

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• A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  People, Giving, Political

  "Gottfried's key to political humor". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 2, 2013.

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• To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.

  Dick Gregory

  Musician, Poet, Really Great

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• A comedian sees the world bent. I'm tangent to the circle.

  Buddy Hackett

  Circles, World, Bent

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• I'm trying to be a comedian, you know?

  Liam Neeson

  Trying, Knows

  "Liam Neeson Talks TAKEN 2, LIFE’S TOO SHORT, BATMAN BEGINS, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, Chances of a TAKEN 3 or TV Series, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. October 6, 2012.

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• All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

  Bob Newhart

  Jobs, Fun, World

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• I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

  Bob Newhart

  Thinking, Stills, Childlike

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• A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

  Graham Norton

  Cynical, Kind, Bunch

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. August 16, 2004.

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• A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: 'Duh.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Funny, Women

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• Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dream, Regret, Seven Months

  "Conan O'Brien quips about next career move: nudity" by Catherine Donaldson-Evans, Marla Lehner, www.cnn.com. January 23, 2010.

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• Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Goes On, Shows

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• Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

  Dave Pelzer

  Voice, Lectures, Jokes

  "No pain, no gain". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2004.

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• I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'

  Amy Poehler

  Ideas, What If, Pitching

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• My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'

  Paula Poundstone

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.

  Colin Quinn

  New York, People, Actors

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• People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

  Joan Rivers

  Happiness, Money, Funny Life

  "Remembering Joan Rivers" by Erica Diamond, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2014.

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• I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

  Joan Rivers

  Memorable, Wish, Looks

  "On Being Blonde" by P. Munier, (p. 84), 2004.

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