Thou shalt not steal-only from other comedians.
What really got my goat at MGM were comedians like The Marx Brothers who never wrote their own jokes.
Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.
I like the comedians that go into detail and tell longer stories.
I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
They're the darkest people I know, comedians.
I hate when comedians use Performed For The Troops as one of there credits before they go up on stage.
Good comedians are great philosophers.
People who become comedians… come from pain, come from conflict.
Some comedians are silly or goofy or straight joke writers who avoid anything subversive or political. Others are drawn to it. The beauty of standup is there is room for everyone, and years of performing in front of crowds will dictate what you can or can't do.
The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry
I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that good. ' People think I'm funny, and I say, 'I'm not. '
For me and most of my friends who are comedians, if you've been doing comedy for a while, your tolerance for things actually moves. I find it very hard to be shocked, and when other people aggressively take offense to something, I'm sometimes confused.
I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.
I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.
In real life, comedians aren't funny.
Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.
I've been insane for a long time. An ex-girlfriend of mine once asked, "Is it true that all comedians are depressed?," and I said, "Every one I know is. "
Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.
Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian; you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that through to everybody.