#comedians

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#asking #been #comedians #comedy #e-mail

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not. ↗

— James Lipton

#busy #comedians #funny #laugh #too

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#antenna #attention #because #comedians #never

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

— Bob Newhart

#existing #fun #job #make #our

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

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#comedians #i #i think #just #part

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#comedians #competitors #dancing #female #fewer

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language. ↗

— Alan Rudolph

#ever #fun #have fun #i #just

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere. ↗

— Allan Carr

#bad #blame #comedians #crowd #everything

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction. ↗

— Bobby Darin

#comedians #comics #distinction #great #i