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"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."
"I started when I was 14. I figured out that's what I wanted to do when I was 14. Even when I was six, I can remember people telling me, "You're gonna be a comedian," and all this stuff."
"A lot of people think I'm a comedian."
"I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right into it."
"I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later."
"Eddie Murphy is to comedians what Nicki Minaj is to Spanx."
"The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form."
"Comedian makes the statement that just isn't true."
"We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion."
"Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian."
"Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude."
"I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian. I'm not Ed Murrow up on the roof in a London fog reporting on the blitz."
"Every comedian has a moment in his life when he realizes he's a little bit different from everyone else. It's like being the only guy in a movie who sees the ghost. The ghost talks to you and you talk to him. Then you turn to your friend and say, "Hey. Do you see that ghost? And he says, What ghost?""
"Comedians are the one who have to tell the emperor he has no clothes on."
"Being a comedian is a lot like being an athlete. If you're Carl Lewis and you're the fastest, then no matter what you're the fastest."
"My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it."
"By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."
"I don't do too many jokes about current affairs, because almost every comedian always does that."
"Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more comedians kicking it hard the way he does every night"
"I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing."
