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"For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins."
"I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective."
"I went to the Missing Persons Bureau but no one was there."
"Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian."
"I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind."
"I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians."
"I set out to become a comedian, and I said in order to do that the first thing I'll do is become a disc jockey and know my pop music. I like it, my voice is good, and I can start out getting confidence without an audience in front of me."
"I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens."
"Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet."
"Everyone thinks I'm a comedian - which I am and are. I was born into a comedic family but I'm trained as an actor."
"I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up."
"Magicians are definitely more arrogant. They're kind of like "Abra Kadabra, you're an idiot," they don't let you in on the joke. Comedians, you're always in on the joke unless it's Andy Kaufman."
"Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them."
"The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet."
"I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher."
"I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes."
"It really helps a comedian to be an outsider."
"I was definitely prepared for it to be slower, and it has not worked out that way in any shape or form. I'm grateful as a comedian, and slightly demoralized, occasionally, as a human being - those two things are always very different."
"I'm an actor, I'm not a comedian, I never was a comedian."
"I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything."
