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

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
Parker Posey

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

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

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Johann Georg Zimmermann

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
Carl Reiner

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

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.
Rich Lowry

Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it's not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.
Steve Harvey

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

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Will Rogers

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
Florenz Ziegfeld

I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them.
Shelley Berman

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.
Ben E. King

I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians.
Todd Barry

I feel I'm as qualified for office as any of the other comedians who are running.
Grace Hansen

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

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
Patton Oswalt

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.
Patton Oswalt

I thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards.
Dorothy Gish