#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

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#comedians #death #dried #early #eighties

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers. ↗

— Jack Black

#department #face #great #handicapped #looks

I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them. ↗

— Jack Dee

#comedians #feel #hang #i #i love

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me. ↗

— Jack Dee

#badly #become #comedians #failed #i

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. ↗

— Imogene Coca

#butterfly #comedians #essentially #hammer #most

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#comedians #information #just #level #listen

Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer. ↗

— Scott Thompson

#career #comedian #comedians #country #everything

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the director wanted me. The writer wanted me. Joe Levine said no, I don't want any comedians in this. ↗

— Gene Wilder

#anthony hopkins #any #called #comedians #did

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it. ↗

— Todd Barry

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