#median

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode. ↗

— Tom Leykis

#appear #carson #comedian #explode #johnny

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#benny #bravest #comedian #doubt #ever

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#comedian #comedy #doing #get #going

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things. ↗

— Aries Spears

#comedian #could #everyday #everyone #exaggeration

Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#comedian #folks #i #i am #journalist

It takes many years to be a great comedian. ↗

— Don Rickles

#great #many #takes #years

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#demetri-martin #funny #games #helping-others #humor

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

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. ↗

— Johann Georg Zimmermann

#imitations #usually

I didn't really want to be a comedian. ↗

— Allan Carr

#i #really #want