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Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.

The comedians all finished their acts with a song. They would get a certain amount of money from the song publishers and would use that money to pay the writers. None of them paid very much for their comedy material, but it all added up.

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians.

I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

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.

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.

Sure, the comedians who swear or use scatological humor can get laughs, but they're uncomfortable laughs.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

It's 103 comedians, or however many it is, and how would everyone tell it. It's enough people of substance that it makes you think of the people who aren't there that are alive.

I'm no way one of those comedians who want to do drama. I really do love comedies. I hope to go back to it.

My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.