“Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.”
Lenny Bruce
“There are many different kinds of comedians ... the observational humorist, the impressionist, the character creator, the physical comedian, the self-deprecator, the dirty-joke teller. What made Richard so brilliant is he was able to incorporate all these styles at once,”
Damon Wayans
“There are many different kinds of comedians ... the observational humorist, the impressionist, the character creator, the physical comedian, the self-deprecator, the dirty-joke teller. What made Richard so brilliant is he was able to incorporate all these styles at once.”
“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 first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his buttons.”
W. C. Fields
