#comedian

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. ↗

— Imogene Coca

#butterfly #comedians #essentially #hammer #most

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#comedians #information #just #level #listen

I didn't become a comedian to work this hard. ↗

— Chelsea Handler

#comedian #hard #i #work

People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#always #call #comedian #comedy #consider

I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#i #i do #just #political

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and its sucked every second so far, it probably isn't gonna get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early. ↗

— Doug Stanhope

#doug #stanhope #life

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode. ↗

— Tom Leykis

#appear #carson #comedian #explode #johnny

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#art #comedians #creative #creative people #enough

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#always #bill #cartoonist #comedians #comedic

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#acting #being #between #comedian #comic