#comic

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#comics #could #dance #law #nightclubs

Well, the coffeehouse audiences never know what they're going to get, and all the comics are different, as opposed to when you go to a club, and they're pretty much all telling jokes with set-ups and punchlines. Coffeehouse audiences are the most forgiving: They really listen, which is the best part. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#best #best part #club #comics #different

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#condescending #elemental #everybody #level #loves

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#art school #brooklyn #call #comics #east

I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything. ↗

— Val Guest

#bits #bits and pieces #comedy #comics #contract

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#call #comedy #comics #day #eddie

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#child #comics #drama #eight #either

I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment. ↗

— Arsenio Hall

#been #being #comic #defining #defining moment

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#boy #comic #comic strips #fan #great

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living. ↗

— Erich Hoeber

#books #comic #comic books #despite #doing