#median

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

I'm the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker. ↗

— Peter Baynham

#i #navigate #only #qualified

It was an alien place, as much inhuman as it was ungodly. There was no life in this place. It was a different world altogether. This world was dead. ↗

— Angelo Tsanatelis

#fantasy-fiction #median-kingdom #life

I think, first of all, you need to love what you're doing, and then this helps in the comedian for its part in everything-but the moment you enjoy what you're doing, you try to express yourself, to find your way, and every time is different, of course. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#course #different #doing #enjoy #every

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

— Julie Brown

#fun #function #i #i think #icons

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#comedian #every #fifteen #laugh #make

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

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am. ↗

— Larry David

#comedian #could #feel #guess #had

I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#became #big #comedian #done #ever