I've seen comedians make people laugh by being either really dark and sad and touching, or really strange and bizarre and creepy. You can take the format and do whatever you want with it, and that seemed interesting to me.
Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.
They're the darkest people I know, comedians.
At the same time, we can't blame comedians for taking time to learn. Any critic of comedy who believes that he has always, universally, been on the right side of justice is engaging in a hypocrisy that is itself a joke.
I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.
Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.
I love comedians. They're my community.
Phyllis Diller came through a mine field of male comedians when she arrived on the comedy scene and she defused them all. She won her place in the Hall of Comedy as the First Lady. I will miss her.
Comedy shows in D. C. are so much fun. I think because of the intense area that is connected to politics that people need, they need their down time. D. C. audiences are almost universally praised by comedians.
Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.
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'm glad that that era of stand-up is over, because I think it adversely affected a lot of people who could have been really, really great comedians. Because they unconsciously or subconsciously stifled their wild impulses, and were thinking about the five clean minutes for The Tonight Show, or the 20-minute sitcom pitch as a stand-up act.
I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.
I hate when comedians use Performed For The Troops as one of there credits before they go up on stage.
I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.
The best part is just having a partner. There is no real worst part. I'm not going to say there's a worst part. I mean I'm a comedian - comedians like to work alone. So maybe I'm not the ideal guy to be married to, in that sense.
Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.
I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.
The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry