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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
I always wanted to be a comedian but never thought I'd be a musical comedian.
I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.
Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.
My family were nothing but pleased when I told them I wanted to be a comedian.
Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.
Stand-up comedy is a science. Every comedian is a psychology major, naturally.
Well, I was lost but now I live here! I have severely improved my predicament!
I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
It's a letdown if the comedian doesn't finally actually really sit on his hat.
I think it's a comedian's job to make everything funny. Nothing is off-limits.
I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.
I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.
Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke.
Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.
As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy.
I'm a very observational type of comedian that points out everyday absurdities.
I am a professional comedian, a published novelist, and a general wit for hire.
I'd love to be a comedian. I've done a lot, but always in the confines of plays.
'Inside' was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.
I’m not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.
I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.
Chihuahua. There's a waste of dog food. Looks like a dog that is still far away.
Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.
[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.
My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
I would not have succeeded as a comedian had I not had some hugely lucky breaks.
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
I'm not a comedian, but I love the comedians who know when to get off the stage.
The key to comedy is commitment - if you're afraid, you shouldn't be a comedian.
A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.
I've often thought I'm a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man's body.
I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet.
I’m a comedian who got into movies, so I don’t really think of myself as an actor.
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.
I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
My daughter Fathima is a bigger comedian than me. She makes me laugh all the time.
Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.
If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.
I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.
The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form.
I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.
The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.
What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.
British comedian Imran Yusuf is fantastic and so is Shazia Mirza, also London-based.