"I like the tradition of the Oscars. I like that some of the greatest comedians ever have hosted the show."
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"A comedian has to live in his head. All this comedy comes from a lonely place. When you're surrounded by an entourage, you're not living in your head."
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"I think anybody in front of a crowd is a comedian."
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"Before I was a comedian, I thought the coolest thing that would happen to me was being a teenager... Boy, was I wrong!"
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"Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career."
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"Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian; you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that through to everybody."
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"I've told Michael Jackson jokes. If you got really technical, you could say those are jokes about child molestation. You could, if you got technical. A lot of this is just selective outrage because honestly, the audience are the ones that tell us that something shouldn't be spoken. The audience lets us know. And I've never, in my almost 30 years of being a comedian, seen a comedian continue to tell a joke that the audience doesn't respond to. I've never seen it."
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"Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather."
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"Donald Trump is not running for president. This is devastating news for Trump's supporters - all of whom are late night comedians."
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"I'm in awe of comedians that do things that I can't do, whether it be a one-liner comic like Anthony Jeselnik, whether it be social issues commentary, whether it be - hell, Carrot Top. I can't be Carrot Top. I can't."
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"I don't get all the anger that is thrown at comedians."
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"I don't know why you'd go to a comedian and say, "You know what? You have a large menu of items, but this one thing I did not like and therefore, you should be shut down. You should cease to make a living and you should be thrown out in the streets.""
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"When a soldier of the night's watch dies they say, "And now his watch is over." That's what they say when a comedian dies. They go, "And now his tour is done.""
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"It's very confusing to me why people take comedians so seriously."
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"I think Eddie Izzard is one of the brightest minds of our generation. I don't see him as a comedian as much as I see him as a philosopher. I hope I get to work with him on everything until I die, because I think he has a great mind and is a very talented actor."
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"In L.A., there could be a million delusional comedians or actors and they all blend in together and no one is ever like, "You're living a lie." But if you're in a small town and you're like, "I'm the funniest person here," but you're not that good, everyone's going to notice and call you out on it."
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"You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando."
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"The whole country was tied together by radio. We all experienced the same heroes and comedians and singers. They were giants."
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"Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited."
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"I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv."
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