“If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.”
George Burns
“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,”
“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you”
Will Rogers
“I’ve often wondered, since I was the moron that Billy Hicks and George Carlin were talking about, why I laughed?”
Bobby W. Miller
“You've got to be (an) optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one”
“It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.”
