"Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world."
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"A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal."
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"Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement."
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"I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian."
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"I'm a comedian, and I definitely see the humor in a lot of things. I am also sad a lot. I cry often and easily. I think you're supposed to feel all kinds of things."
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"I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame."
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"The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth."
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"I wanted to be a comedian. I wanted to meet waitresses and felt that being a comedian was my best way to go about it and I was right."
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"A good competition for comedians would be where a comedian has a conversation and is then quizzed on what the other person says."
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"When you're 17 years old, you have no idea who you are as a person, so there's no way you can be a good performer. You can't be a good comedian, because you don't know who you are, you don't know what you're saying. Stand-up is nothing but an expression of self-awareness. It wasn't until I was 23, 24 that I got to have a handle on a perspective on life, where I became decent. And I was just a terribly socially awkward younger person."
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"Whatever happens in life can happen on the stage, but as a comedian you should always be clear what your target is. It's fine to be gratuitously tasteless if that's what you are intending to do. It's that old line: I don't defend what a comedian might say but I defend to the death his right to say it."
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"My theory about comedians is that their greatest fear is other people laughing at them. So comedy is an attempt to control and manipulate the thing they find most frightening."
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"I've been a comedian since I was fourteen. But I've never really been a CEO."
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"I wasn't even a big comedy nerd. A lot of the comedians I know - a lot of my friends are comedians - they knew a lot about comedy growing up."
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"I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange."
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"I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that."
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"I try to stay with it and I try to stay in contact with comedians and just keep comedians in my life 'cause comedians are their own species. If you get away from them, especially as a comedian, I think it's dangerous."
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"You just got to be really logical when you're a comedian - to a fault. Like a lawyer's got to believe in the law."
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"Standup comedians are attracted to one another because of their faults. So we're all kind of messed up in the same way, and once I was around a group of people that saw the world in a different way, it's like this is where I need to be."
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"Nobody really wants to be a stand-up, they want to get on TV."
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