68 Quotes About Comedians

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.

I never really understood why people look to comedians for moral certitude or judge them other than on the humor of their jokes, they are not prophets, despite what some might claim.

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person's play?

I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

Jokes create the air in our lungs. And as long as humans deal with humans, there will forever be something laughable to point out in the room.

Everyone who is at all successful in comedy has had a secret comedy dork life in their adolescence. Whether it's sitcoms or stand-ups, wallowing in the muck of comedy and repeating classic routines and jokes through your teenage years is what gives every aspiring comic or comedic actor the seed of their absurdist imagination that later takes flower.

Comedians are people who embarrass themselves in style.

Some so-called comedians are, not funny, but a joke.

I was thinking about … how disarming is the ability to make people laugh. It’s a gift, mimicry, but it’s not acting; in a way it’s the opposite of acting, which is why comedians are seldom good actors. There’s an element of exaggeration in the imposture; the copy is the original painted with a broad brush and it can be grotesque, even cruel. But no one is offended. People are drawn to the funnyman who can imitate a politician or a famous actor or an ethnic type, especially his own ethnic type.