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If people leave the house wanting to see a comedian, they want to see someone speak out for themselves and share true stories from their life.
James Acaster
Life
People
Speak
Out
See
Someone
Share
True
Comedian
House
Leave
Want
Wanting
Stories
Themselves
I'm not a stand-up comedian; I'm not a satirist.
James Corden
Comedian
Satirist
My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian. Now, they think of me as a bad guy, and I can't do comedy.
James Cromwell
Death
Me
Comedy
First
Think
Films
Bad
Detective
Bad Guy
Guy
Cheap
Comedian
Were
Now
You can succeed as a terrible director, but try doing that with stand-up: try being a terrible comedian and getting up on stage. The funny will win out very, very quickly.
James Veitch
Funny
You
Director
Win
Try
Will
Stage
Out
Comedian
Terrible
Doing
Up
Very
Quickly
Getting
Being
Succeed
I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.
Jamie Kennedy
Somebody
Laugh
Comedian
Liked
Said
How
Just
Being
Should
Planning
Started
Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.
Janeane Garofalo
Life
Politics
Me
Culture
People
Sometimes
Political
Word
Say
People Say
Comedian
Just
Which
Again
Who
Actually
But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.
Jay Mohr
You
Timing
Kind
Would
See
Take
Throws
Like
Comedian
Off
Then
Stand
Your
Applause
Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Myself
First
Saw
Moore
Blake
Never
Comedian
Edward
Burt Reynolds
Choice
Alan
In any character you do, especially something like 'Watchmen,' if you're gonna do this, you're gonna do this right. I'm fighting for the Comedian every step of the way; there's not even a question, Adrian is a scumbag.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Character
You
Fighting
Every
Every Step
Way
Something
Adrian
Step
Like
Comedian
Question
Any
Gonna
Even
Right
Watchmen
Comedian sort of enjoys the darkness because, essentially, he's a thug. He's just not a nice guy.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Darkness
Thug
Nice
Guy
He
Comedian
Sort
Because
Essentially
Just
Nice Guy
Titles always sound so pretentious, and when I see a comedian, I just want the person to take flight, not stick to one topic or subject.
Jeremy Hardy
Pretentious
Topic
See
Take
Comedian
Stick
Always
Sound
Subject
Person
Just
Want
Titles
Flight
I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.
Jerrod Carmichael
Great
Me
Advice
Gave
Kid
Out
Characters
Telling
Followed
Never
Comedian
Doing
Friend
Loved
Sketches
Then
Shot
Really
Should
Her
Playing
Kept
Set
The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.
Jerry Seinfeld
You
Other
About
Comedian
Most
Comedians
Talk
Knowing
Greatest
Greatest Thing
Get
Being
Them
Fun
Thing
You spend so much time in the world of virtual that the actual - which nothing is more actual than stand-up - it's a painful experience for the audience, and the comedian a lot of time - we miss that.
Jerry Seinfeld
Time
You
Experience
World
Nothing
Virtual
Spend
More
Miss
Comedian
Audience
Lot
Than
So Much Time
Which
Much
Painful
Actual
I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.
Jesse Williams
Funny
News
Me
Find
Something
Gives
Combine
Comedian
Always
Trying
Just
Processing
Little
Depressing
Next
There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.
Jim Gaffigan
Me
Better
Made
Think
About
Parent
Something
Comedian
Being
I'm a comedian, which is the opposite of a lifestyle that equips you to be a parent.
Jim Gaffigan
You
Parent
Lifestyle
Comedian
Opposite
Which
I didn't plan to be the rude middle-class comedian. You write a certain type of joke that you find funny, and mine happen to be often rude. Yes, it's juvenile, but that's me.
Jimmy Carr
Funny
Me
You
Rude
Joke
Type
Mine
Find
Write
Comedian
Yes
Often
Happen
Plan
Juvenile
Certain
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I'm unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I'm angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I'm very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.
Joan Rivers
Day
Angry
Me
You
Age
Hate
Little Things
Unhappy
To Be Honest
Gone
Every
Think
Furious
Libraries
Able
Born
About
Something
Shallow
Tend
Open
Comedian
Know
Makes
Diapers
Very
Being
Children
Anymore
Packages
Little
Planes
Things
Honest
I know who Dick Gregory is; I knew what his accomplishments are. I certainly knew him as a comedian and an activist.
Joe Morton
Knew
Comedian
Know
Him
His
Accomplishments
Certainly
Who
Activist
Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.
Joe Rogan
Soul
People
Mind
Think
Everybody
He
Comedian
Most
Him
His
Pryor
Loved
Richard
Much
Richard Pryor
Why
Honest
To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.
John Leguizamo
You
Way
Comedian
Around
Gotta
Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I'm a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don't understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.
John Logan
Me
You
People
Dark
Pain
Say
Characters
People Say
Anguish
Comedian
Understand
Vexing
Where
Either
Theater
Appeal
I have too many influences to name. I like a wide variety of stuff, which I think has been helpful. I liked every comedian I saw on TV growing up in the '80s. Every comedian.
John Mulaney
Every
Think
Too
Saw
Has-Been
TV
Variety
Stuff
Name
Like
Comedian
Liked
Been
Up
Influences
Which
Helpful
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Wide
Wide Variety
I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.
John Oliver
Me
You
Jokes
Desperate
Laugh
Comedian
How
Sounds
Realize
Ask
Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.
John Podhoretz
Animals
Entirely
Comedian
Comedians
Impressionist
Impressions
Different
Used
Showbiz
Who
Now
Thing
Two
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