“Without the laughs, the audience wouldn’t be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian,”
George Carlin
“Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.”
“The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.”
Lenny Bruce
“Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his buttons.”
W. C. Fields
“A comedian can only last 'til he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.”
Will Rogers
“The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.”
George Jean Nathan
