I thought that I was going to be a stand-up comedian or an actress. Turns out, I can’t act my way out of a paper bag and stand-up comedy is a lot harder than it appears.
I think of myself as a light comedian.
Chevy Chase and Bill Murray – we thought those guys were funny. We love Bill Murray, but we didn’t think they were right for Airplane! because it would step on the joke if there was a known comedian.
I’m a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I’m not affiliated with any campaign, nor do I generally find politics interesting enough to plan to be involved.
As a comedian, I’m always quoting ‘Caddyshack’ and ‘Dumb and Dumber.’
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.
So we have the story of who we are. I’m a man, and I’m a comedian, and I’m a tall man. I have big teeth and all these things, and I like the first two Batman movies, and I don’t drink coffee, or whatever it is.
I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say ‘I’m a comedian,’ people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don’t know what you call that – a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don’t know. Satirists can be very dark.
When I was a teenager, I met a comedian who I admired, and he was very rude to me. That’s why when people come up to me I try not to be rude. I don’t want to name who he is, but it really put me off watching his stuff since.
When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can’t hold ’em back. You got to work with ’em, dude. What you think, I’m just gonna do what’s on the page, say ‘yes sir, no sir’? I’m creatively beyond that.
One of the biggest misconceptions about me is that I’m a comedian, which I’m not. A comedian is someone who can stand up in front of an audience and make you laugh. I’ve never done stand-up and I never will. I’m a comic actor. My comedy comes through my characters.
I don’t consider myself an Iranian comedian; I consider myself a comedian who happens to be of Iranian descent.
I’m a clown. I’m a comedian. Comedy, by design, is a place to explore the subconscious.
I was stuck in the benefits of being a known comedian.
If I ever interview somebody, I make sure I listen to them. As a comedian, I’ve gone on so many shows, I’ve wanted to take things to a crazy place. Sometimes the hosts don’t like that.
I never saw myself as a comedian. I saw myself as a guy who can act funny.
I’m a much better comedian than I am a soccer player.
I’m a comedian. I can’t get a spray tan. I can’t get a weave. I can’t get my teeth done. Can you imagine if I came out on stage looking really hunky? Comedy doesn’t work like that.
If it were just a dream to be famous, then I probably would have died a really quick death, because there is nothing about me that equals fame. I’m not a standup comedian. I don’t sing.
Music is very similar to comedy: It’s all about texture, timing, context, vocabulary, performance. When someone’s onstage doing a solo, essentially it’s the same thing as what a comedian does. They’re in the moment. They’re listening.
I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.
The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.
Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often dressed up as an older, disheveled woman.
A comedian’s a comedian. They’re a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that’s why I like them.
I would not have succeeded as a comedian had I not had some hugely lucky breaks.
I have too many influences to name. I like a wide variety of stuff, which I think has been helpful. I liked every comedian I saw on TV growing up in the ’80s. Every comedian.
I think I have got a lot better as an interviewer. I let people talk now which is something you need to do. At the beginning I thought jokes, jokes, jokes, I am a stand up comedian but I think I have mellowed out now.
I’m probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.
There are many problems with being a comedian: the travel, the late nights, the pressure, the fear of running out of funny things to say.
I’m all about showing people that I’m a little messed up, I have a lot of the same problems you have. By exposing myself and putting myself out there, people can relate to me and my act won’t grow stale. I mean, nobody wants to hear a comedian say, ‘Life is great.’
I was a big Jay Leno fan, so I was sorry to see him go. But my number one person that I watch, she’s not late night, but in terms of the comedian genre, is Ellen DeGeneres – love her.
I am a comedian. I do feel I have to put my experience on a public stage. As an artist, that’s what I do. Even though that sounds poncey.
Alan Moore’s first choice to be the Comedian… was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.
There’s something really powerful about comedy. When the little guy, the comedian, punches up towards the big guy, or Trump, exposing him, calling out the emperor for having no clothes, that’s really important.
I’ve been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I’ve never really been a CEO.
When they put me in jail, that’s when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.
Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.
I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
I don’t have credibility, I’m a comedian.
I think of myself as an Indian comedian, but I’ve had British and American schooling. I always had this feeling of not fitting in anywhere, of observing situations from the outside.
A comedian needs more than just a sense of humour. He needs to observe everything around him.
I’m a liberal arts comedian and the definition of liberal arts is all spheres of human knowledge, coexisting, mixing and influencing each other.
I like to turn up my collar when I’m leaving the theatre and feel like I’m some heroic comedian figure.
If the show is going really well and the comedian is still annoyed with the audience, chances are he’s a Boston comic. That’s the beauty of Boston comics.
The comedian just wants to get a laugh.
I’m funny. I’m a comedian. I’m not a clown.
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
If something’s true you should be able discuss it or ask whether it’s true. It helps me as a comedian. But it doesn’t necessarily help my personal life.
Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred ‘Chuckles’ Jenkins, Britain’s oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred’s jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.
It’s funny – almost every comedian that I started out with moved to L.A., except for my two friends Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer. And my two friends that are doing the best in comedy, the most successful friends I have, are Hannibal Buress and Amy Schumer.
Firstly, I am not a comedian. I have a sense of doing comedy but I am a character artist. If the character in the film is a comedy than I can portray it. But, I am not a comedian.
I was doing a lot of drama until I took the comedy role in the series ‘Car 54, Where Are You?,’ and I’ve been tagged as a comedian ever since.
I am a funny as well as an emotional person. The comedian inside me cries at times while watching a movie.
You can’t just expect anyone to turn comedian because it’s something that should come naturally, but not when forced on someone.
When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.
To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there’s no way around it.
The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.
I’m dirty, I’m irreverent – but I’m still a very topical comedian.
I’m a performer, comedian, entertainer, writer and director.
As a comedian, you have everything working against you.
There are so few jobs for comedians on networks, that taxi TV and elevator TV and all this stuff are what I and every other comedian now are gunning for.
In India, big stars like Akshay Kumar or Salman Khan do comedy and serious films and we call them great actors. But when it comes to actors of my stature, people rush to typecast me as a comedian without giving a look to all my work.
Sydney and I made so many pictures together we were becoming Abbott and Costello, so we broke up. You know Greenstreet was a comedian before he played ‘The Maltese Falcon’ and in that picture his dialogue consisted of seven pages in a row which he memorized weeks ahead.
I’m not saying that I’m on some crusade to change people’s minds. I’m just doing what I do. I’m a comedian, I’m trying to be funny… I think when they see a comedy show with an Iranian and an Egyptian and two Palestinians, I think they go, ‘Oh wow, these guys are just like us.’
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