Quotes About Comedian

I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.

I pushed against doing a podcast for so long. I'm a very late comer to the podcast game. But you're responsibility as a comedian is to get your viewpoints out into the world, and we have a lot more avenues to do that. So it's a lot more opportunity, but really have to work all the time.

When it's a superstar's movie, it does not matter whether I am a villain, comedian or father. Acting in such movies is always good and special.

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh.

Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?

You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we miss that.

There are all kinds of humor and I have largely indulged in clean comedy.

Larry David, he's my hero. I want to be him - I want to act like him - everything.

I'm a late-night guy.

I believe in being honest with myself. If there's one thing I hate it's when a comedian is great and won't admit it. I've never met one like that, but if I did, I'd hate them.

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

George Burns was the father I never had

Dave! Relax! Close your buttcheeks!

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

You see, the way my bank account is set up...

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

Robert Hoffman is kind of infamous for beinga prankster, funny guy.

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.

I don't like grouper fish. Well, they're okay. They hang around star fish. Because they're grouper fish.

I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I don't think of myself as a comedian, but as an artist, a scientist and chemist who just happens to be funny. I started doing stand-up to add another level to my game. I feel that I'm a young rookie with a veteran's skill.