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As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy.

As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier.

As a comedian, I have the gift of looking at something a bit differently and making it funny. I'm not sure why I can do that, but that's as simple as I can put it.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

At a time when public finances are under huge strain, we surely do not need to pay celebrities to wax lyrical to mandarins. Unless American comedians can make the Home Office fit for purpose, the taxpayer won't be laughing.

At first, it was really weird after being a touring stand-up comedian that wears just jeans and a shirt. But now, it's almost like when you go from Clark Kent to Superman: "All right, I've got to go put on a suit and interview Justin Trudeau." It feels like it's part of the process. Oddly enough, I've been in enough places - they sometimes send you to places that are a bit scary - that I know how to run in a suit. Like, run fast.

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

As a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal - in all of those areas, I am looking forward to the end of the Bush administration with every fiber of my being.

As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold.

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit.

As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.

Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.

Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My stand-up isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen.

Because I'm around comedians all the time, in my downtime I tend not to watch comedy. Something the whole family enjoys is 'You've Been Framed!' It satisfies all of us. It's universal, and we all laugh a lot.

Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, This is where I wanna be.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

Back when Jerry Seinfeld was just another comedian hanging around the clubs, I'd imitate him to amuse myself and the other comics. The club owners would say, 'What are you doing that for? Nobody knows him.'

Being a comedian is an incredible thing, but it can be scary sometimes.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

Being a rapper is about being cool, but being a comedian, you're not supposed to be the coolest guy.

Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you.

Being comedian outside of performing, you're someone who's analyzing life, and thinking about it, and observing so much. In my opinion, it can make you feel sort of on the outside looking in.

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

Branne's [Pavlovic] parents wanted him to become a taxi driver, but he became a stand-up comedian instead. So they died of shame.

Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.

But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake

But I will say that most comedians are the saddest people I know. That is the biggest paradox to me.

Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

By watching the great, old comedians I picked up a few tricks about how to do physical comedy. And whenever I could learn something, I sort of added that to my repertoire.

Chihuahua. There's a waste of dog food. Looks like a dog that is still far away.

Catch Fire, Do Something, Get Excited by Finding Your Purpose In Life.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.

Christians have always been fodder for comedians who have tended to portray them as anoraks - slightly clammy, beatifically smiley dullards with barely a personality between them.

Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.

Comedians rarely have writers, and if you do it's usually a sign of laziness.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

Comedians want to be rock legends for a day - that sounds fun to them.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

Comedy is crowded. There are hundreds of comedians in every place in the world.

Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

Comedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it's hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.