Quotes with comedians

  • For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
  • Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
  • Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

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  • Allan Carr A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.
    Allan Carr
    American theater producer and manager (1937 - 1999)
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  • Carly Craig A lot of female comedians will go up there in a sweatshirt and Converses, trying to dress themselves down, because it is sort of a boy's club. I'll go up in my heels. I like that people don't think I'll be funny. I'll take that on. I don't do standup comedy - I do standup and I do comedy, but I don't go up there and do jokes.
    Carly Craig
    American actress (1980 - )
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  • Bob Newhart All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
    Johann Georg - Ritter von Zimmermann
    Swiss philosopher, physician and writer (1728 - 1795)
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  • Carl Reiner Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
    Carl Reiner
     
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  • Will Rogers Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bob Newhart For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bob Newhart It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Bob Saget It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.
    Bob Saget
    American stand-up comedian, actor, television host and director (1956 - 2022)
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  • Adrian Edmondson Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Graham Greene We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Ben Stiller Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Bob Newhart When I started, I was doing all the good comedians I'd ever seen. Then I developed my own voice. My routines are my natural way of looking at the world.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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