#comedians

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

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The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

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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

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

— Julie Brown

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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

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

— Shelley Berman

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The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry. ↗

— Martin Landau

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The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming. ↗

— Marc Maron

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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

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To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it. ↗

— Don Rickles

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