“I am a product. . . . I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.”
Carlos Mencia
“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.”
Will Rogers
“Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.”
Yakov Smirnoff
“Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.”
Johann Georg Zimmermann
“I’ve often wondered, since I was the moron that Billy Hicks and George Carlin were talking about, why I laughed?”
Bobby W. Miller
“Anyone can make people laugh with a good joke but a truly funny person will make you laugh telling a bad one.”
Daniel Graves
“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
