#comedian

I'm glad Reagan is president. Of course, I'm a professional comedian. ↗

— Will Durst

#course #glad #i #president #professional

It takes many years to be a great comedian. ↗

— Don Rickles

#great #many #takes #years

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career. ↗

— Chris Rock

#comedians #comfort #comfort zone #find #rest

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians. ↗

— David Zucker

#attendant #because #comedians #gas #gas station

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

#comedians #customers #funny #great #had

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#imitations #usually

I didn't really want to be a comedian. ↗

— Allan Carr

#i #really #want

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#approval #comedians #desperately #disorder #job

I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times. ↗

— Kate Clinton

#comedians #extremely #fact #gives #happy

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#considers #everyone #holding #north #own