#median

I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#comedians #drama #find #i #love

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?' ↗

— Amy Poehler

#any #back #been #comedians #comedy

To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it. ↗

— Don Rickles

#different #doing #first #guy #i

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#career #comedian #did #got #great

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#comedians #country #country club #grandfather #group

I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it. ↗

— Thomas Lennon

#actual #anything #comedian #considered #guess

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs. ↗

— John Ratzenberger

#get #humor #laughs #sure #swear

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#comedians #competitors #dancing #female #fewer

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language. ↗

— Alan Rudolph

#ever #fun #have fun #i #just

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny. ↗

— Maya Rudolph

#choice #comedian #funny #funny movie #goal