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A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
Bobby Darin
American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973) -
As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.
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For a comedian, there is nothing better than watching another great comedian.
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God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.
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I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it.
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Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.
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Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.
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People always say: You're a comedian, tell us a joke. They don't say: You're an MP, tell us a lie.
Independent on Sunday obituary -
Richard Pryor introduced me to the world of the inner city, and the urban world, and did it hysterically. My favorite comedian, even though we work 180 degrees differently, but funny is funny is funny.
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The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.
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The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian.
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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
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There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
My Life as Me: A Memoir -
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
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Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
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Well, my career choice made a difference because I never would have met my wife, Jenny. I met her through comedian Buddy Hackett. He set us up on a blind date and then we got married.
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