#comedians

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

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny. ↗

— Denis Norden

#comedians #enjoyed #funny #i #like

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up. ↗

— Denis Norden

#added #amount #certain #comedians #comedy

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it. ↗

— Molly Shannon

#comedians #comedies #drama #go #hope

I know a lot about Jewish comedians. ↗

— Dana Snyder

#comedians #i #jewish #know #lot

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians. ↗

— Ben E. King

#i #i do #lot #vegas #work

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

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