#comedians

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

— Carl Reiner

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

— Todd Barry

#astronauts #comedians #i #know #lot

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#get #humor #laughs #sure #swear

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#comedians #competitors #dancing #female #fewer

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

— Alan Rudolph

#ever #fun #have fun #i #just

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 thought comedians had to have black on their faces or red beards. ↗

— Dorothy Gish

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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

#comedians #comics #distinction #great #i

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons. ↗

— Julie Brown

#fun #function #i #i think #icons

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