#comedian

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world. ↗

I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#background #comedian #environment #family #family background

I was influenced by every comedian I ever saw work. That's the only way you learn how to do it. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#ever #every #how #i #influenced

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

#clean #comedians #decided #decision #early

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. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#blind #buddy #career #career choice #choice

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. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#becoming #being #comedians #comedy #doing

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it. ↗

— Don Rickles

#different #doing #first #guy #i

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#career #comedian #did #got #great

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#comedians #country #country club #grandfather #group

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. ↗