There is a very difficult period in a comedian's career - it's that window of time where you're good enough to draw tickets but nobody knows you yet.
If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I'm not a standup comedian. I don't sing.
Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.
I'm a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.
I always wanted to be a popular comedian.
To become the best comedian, I must be well-rounded.
I don't do one-liners, because you don't learn anything about that comedian.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I want to come back and do talk. I want to do late-night talk the right way. Arsenio ain't there anymore, and the late-night talk competition is weak. All them dudes is weak. I don't even know who they are. Weirdos, and I don't even care. I want to bring real fun back to late night where a real comedian is doing it.
Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.
I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.
I always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, even as a kid. Me and my dad would watch 'Evening at the Improv' on A&E.
I like the ironic pomposity of a stand-up comedian. Like all those comedians thinking they can bring down Coca-Cola. They forget to be funny.
A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.
If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.
When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.
I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
I've often thought I'm a short music hall comedian stuck in a leading man's body.
I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.
I know that, as a comedian, I've made great strides because I've worked as hard as a person can work at being at least wildly amusing.
I think you're a better comedian when you're in the moment and you're kind of reacting to what's happening like a real person instead of doing rote memorization.
As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.
I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken my influence from Jack Benny, who was the king of that... I've always done 'less is more.'
I am a comedian: that means I laugh at things other people don't laugh at and also annoys my wife sometimes.
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
I used to have a theory actually that, if you've had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you're going to make a lousy comedian.
The one thing that has helped sustain my career as an actress and a comedian is that people generally view me as fundamentally stupid.
I'm not just a pundit - I'm a comedian.
Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.
Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I'm very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.
Whatever comedian says he doesn't read comments, I never believe him, because we all have the same pathological problem to see what people think of us, and it sucks, because you try not to take it personally, and people are monsters and idiots.
I'm not a stand-up comedian. I'm not an improv person or anything, but I've always been a fan of that stuff.
My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of the Chorus,' as Marilyn Monroe's father.
