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• My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.

  Eddie Huang

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• I’m an actor, I’m not a comedian, I never was a comedian.

  Jonah Hill

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• I tell people I’m a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I’m somebody’s husband, I’m somebody’s father. I’m a man. I take great pride in that.

  Steve Harvey

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• What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.

  Buddy Hackett

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• The one thing an audience always has in common with a comedian is troubles. The Yiddish word for that is tsuris. You’re always putting your tsuris on stage whether you like it or not. No one is untroubled, unless they’re just, you know, an imbecile.

  David Steinberg

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• I used to have a theory actually that, if you’ve had a good childhood, a good marriage and a little bit of money in the bank, you’re going to make a lousy comedian.

  David Steinberg

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• You don’t need to be stable to be a stand-up comedian.

  David Steinberg

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• When I started, you didn’t make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn’t get a lot of respect.

  David Steinberg

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• As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.

  H. Rider Haggard

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• The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

  Nikolai Gogol

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• I wanted to be a comedian.

  Kelly Slater

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• I just think of myself as a comedian, really.

  Sarah Silverman

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• I didn’t become a comedian to work this hard.

  Chelsea Handler

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• I’m the only comedian qualified to navigate a supertanker.

  Peter Baynham

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• I don’t think I was a good comedian.

  Brigitte Bardot

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• Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn’t curse.

  Chris Rock

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• I just like observing people – it’s something I’ve done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That’s a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that.

  Ellen DeGeneres

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• I really don’t know what makes a comedian. I think it’s a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.

  Bob Newhart

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• If you go down as a comedian’s comedian, that’s basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you’re doing okay.

  Eddie Izzard

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• Whenever I go on a show with a comedian I just counter punch.

  Bill O'Reilly

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