When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian.
[last lines] Rorschach: Rorschach's Journal: October 12th, 1985. Tonight, a comedian died in New York.
Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don't think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness.
You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.
There's this misconception that comedy and music go together. They don't. Comedians can't compete with rock stars; they're just not on the same level. Rock stars will always be cooler. They will always get more girls.
Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
If I wanted to take a more activist or journalistic slant in work, I should probably just go be an activist or a journalist. But I'm happy being a comedian.
You work with stand-up comedians or you work with somebody in theater, you work with somebody from 'Star Search' or 'Survivor' or a kid, it constantly changes how you play with people.
Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.
They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.
My younger sister's a comedian. She has a sketch comedy group in Chicago called Schadenfreude and I look at her with such admiration and envy because it's such an amazing thing to make someone laugh.
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
Comedians love people to point and laugh at them, even if they are not funny, naturists don't, no matter how funny they are.
Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
I want to invent a Laughometer, a device to measure and gauge humor, which would be used for comedians. And politicians.
I love Dallas, Austin and Houston. Why? Because some of the best comedians, like Bill Hicks and Sam Kinison, started their careers in Texas, and because the crowds there are comedy-educated.
I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.
