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People always ask about my dad and his comedic influence. It's funny because my mom is really the comedian of our household.
I get called all kinds of things - an investigative comedian, a comedian activist - I've lost track of what my job title is.
I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction.
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.
That is what I got into comedy for, to be able to challenge myself and just grow as a comedian and find new ways to be funny.
The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants.
I'm a very straightforward person. But that's fine for a comedian. Because a lot of times you're talking about everyone else.
Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather.
I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later.
I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.
I wasn't expecting to really draw in respected comedians but it's going to happen along the way and I'm truly honored by that.
A comedian's career span is five or 10 years. I am lucky to have worked with so many distinguished actors and their grandsons.
You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact with the audience.
Every male comedian of note who is over the age of 45 has a kid, and they talk about it and don't get grouped as 'dad comics.'
I had ADD as a kid and often acted as the class clown. My teachers used to tell my mom, 'Raphael thinks he's a real comedian.'
I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.
If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.
When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.
My mother, Barbara, was a dancer from the age of 14 to 19. She toured with the comedian Max Wall in a dance group of six girls.
Good comedy can be liberating, and if I'm doing my job as a comedian, part of the joy for the audience is getting that release.
It doesn't matter if I'm playing a lead role or that of a comedian; I want my audience to have entertainment worth their money.
Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to point out its absurdities.
I'm friends with a lot of comedians, but we don't talk about material. Most comedians I know don't watch a lot of other comedy.
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.
No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years.
I know I'm fly - don't get me wrong. But I don't look, like, standard Hollywood. As a comedian, it's something you learn to use.
A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says.
I did say to myself one day, 'I'd love to be a Jewish comedian,' but that's my only memory with any connection to show business.
Like with any good art form, if you can entertain people and make them think, it's an honor. It's just an honor to be a comedian.
I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.
I'm very lucky to be a comedian, and I feel privileged that people come to see me in the expectation that I will make them laugh.
Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.
I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.
For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.
Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.
I often think it can often be very difficult for comedians to revisit the same gag. I think Russell's a bit more than a comedian.
I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.
It's very rare that an older comedian sort of slips into an old-school clunker. You know, you don't hear too much of that anymore.
Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
In the '80s especially, a lot of comedians felt compelled to stick with what made them famous and those people became caricatures.
Donald Trump is not running for president. This is devastating news for Trump's supporters - all of whom are late night comedians.
I'm a comedian in real life. I always goof around; I'm out-going; and I talk with everybody, especially through Twitter these days!
Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.
I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.
What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
Everyone goes "every comedian does Arnold Schwarzenegger". Yes, they do; but do they do Arnold Schwarzenegger in Brokeback Mountain?