#comedians

The light. The light is so bright that all that remains is you and the darkness. You can feel the audience breathing. It's like holding a gun or standing on a precipice and knowing you must jump. It feels slow and fast. It's like dying and being born and fucking and crying. It's like falling in love and being utterly alone with God; you taste your own mouth and feel your own skin and I knew I was alive and I knew who I was and that that wasn't who I'd been up till then. I'd been so far away but I knew I was home. ↗

— Russell Brand

#performance #love

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#art #comedians #creative #creative people #enough

For the most part, comedians are pretty friendly with each other. They always say they badmouth each other, but most of the time, they're friends. We're the only ones that can really stand our type of humor. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#comedians #each #friendly #friends #humor

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart. ↗

— Adrian Edmondson

#comedians #cooper #endearing #getting #like

I'm attracted to working with comedians because they don't have that stars' idea of what a hero should be. The downside is they're always addressing the camera too much. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#always #attracted #because #camera #comedians

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

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

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors. ↗

— Ben Stiller

#business #comedians #directors #grew #had

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

— Grace Hansen

#comedians #feel #i #i feel #office

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

#bad #blame #comedians #crowd #everything