#median

Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#jokes #life #life

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

— Julie Brown

#fun #function #i #i think #icons

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

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

— Allan Carr

#i #really #want

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#approval #comedians #desperately #disorder #job

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 really loved what I was doing being creative and being funny as a stand-up comedian. ↗

— Chris Tucker

#being funny #comedian #creative #doing #funny

I don't have a fear factor. Well, not much of one. And I'm willing to risk quite a lot - as a comedian, you're always risking a lot. You're risking failure, especially if you're improvising and going on TV shows trying to make comedy out of thin air. That is quite a risky business. ↗

— David Walliams

#always #business #comedian #comedy #especially

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world. ↗

— David Walliams

#british #cohen #comedian #most #otherwise

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process. ↗

— David Walliams

#because #being #comedian #failing #means