#comedian

I was an actor before becoming a comedian. ↗

— Shelley Berman

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I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things. ↗

— Rodney Carrington

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I think Flip Wilson is a brillant comedian. ↗

— Bobby Darin

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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian. ↗

— Larry David

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If you're billed as a comedian, people will accept anything you say as light-hearted and not with intent behind it. ↗

— Megan Fox

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My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be funny and become a comedian and a comedy writer, so to say that he's somewhat of a mythic figure in my life would be an understatement. ↗

— Carol Leifer

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The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. ↗

— Marc Maron

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But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it. ↗

— Jay Mohr

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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

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Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions. ↗

— John Podhoretz

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