„He's basically a romantic comedian.“

„A comedian is not a man who opens a funny door. He opens a door funny.“

—  Ed Wynn American actor 1886 - 1966

Hedda Hooper, November 1 1960, “Comic Ed Wynn, Winning Still, Discusses Craft”, Buffalo (NY) Courier-Express, pg. 6, col. 1. Wynn was paraphrasing Fred Allen. “A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny”, Barry Popik, November 10, 2015, January 7, 2017 http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_comic_says_funny_things/,

„I always wanted to be a comedian and actor, […] I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I'm OK, but that's about it. I like to think I'm good enough not to negatively affect the performance.“

—  Bo Burnham American comedian, musician, and actor 1990

[Joseph P., Kahn, Joseph P. Kahn, Nonfamily humor, straight from home, y, http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/02/13/nonfamily_humor_straight_from_home/, The Boston Globe, P. Steven Ainsley, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 2008-02-13, 2009-01-25, Irreverent songs win Hamilton youth a cult following]

„The comedian studies himself; the actor studies other people. The comedian wants to be himself; the actor wants to be anyone but themselves.“

—  Jerry Seinfeld American comedian and actor 1954

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012 — Present), Season 3 (2014)

„Comedian Rush Limbaugh“

—  Keith Olbermann American sports and political commentator 1959

Catch Phrases
Origine: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200703300001

„A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door — he's the person who opens a door funny.“

—  Chuck Jones American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films 1912 - 2002

John Lewell, "The Art of Chuck Jones: John Lewell Interviews the Veteran Hollywood Animator [1982]," in Animation - Art and Industry, ed. Maureen Furniss (John Libby Publishing Ltd., 2009), 134. Jones was paraphrasing Ed Wynn who was in turn paraphrasing Fred Allen.
Origine: “A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny”, Barry Popik, November 10, 2015, January 7, 2017 http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/a_comic_says_funny_things/,

„My dad knew I was going to be a comedian. When I was a baby, he said, 'Is this a joke?“

—  Ken Dodd English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor 1927 - 2018

Origine: Ken Dodd: 17 of his funniest one-liners, BBC News, 12 March 2018, 12 March 2018 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43370741,

„He looked at her with that kind of painted-on seriousness that comedians shift into when they get their chance to play Hamlet.“

—  Tom Robbins, libro Still Life with Woodpecker

Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

„For the American comedian, see Billy Crystal.“

—  William Kristol American writer 1952

„Comedians have such an intense allergy to pretension.“

—  Jerry Seinfeld American comedian and actor 1954

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee (2012 — Present), Season 3 (2014)

„I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce.“

—  Lenny Bruce comedian and social critic 1925 - 1966

as quoted by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to tell the truth 1998 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175844/

„There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.“

—  Barry Humphries Australian comedian and actor 1934

My Life as Me: A Memoir (2002)

„Creator — A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.“

—  H.L. Mencken American journalist and writer 1880 - 1956

1940s–present

„God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.“

—  Voltaire French writer, historian, and philosopher 1694 - 1778

"Creator — A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh." — H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques‎ (1920), p. 203. and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), Ch. 30
Misattributed

„For his contemporaries, Racine was a romantic, but for every age he is classical, that is to say, he is faultless.“

—  Eugène Delacroix French painter 1798 - 1863

13 January 1857 (p. 337)
1831 - 1863

„I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.“

—  Alice Cooper American rock singer, songwriter and musician 1948

Interview with Andrew Denton http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1396692.htm on Enough Rope (20 June 2005).
Contesto: I'm very romantic, I'm extremely romantic. I date my wife.... That's one thing guys don't understand. This is something that you would be very surprised that I understand, is that men are microwaves and women are pressure cookers. Men want sex, bang; women like romance. Guys, learn how to romance.

„I am the only Iranian comedian in the world… and that's three more than Germany!“

—  Omid Djalili Iranian-British stand-up comedian 1965

No Agenda (2007)

„Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.“

—  Jimmy Durante American jazz singer, pianist, comedian and actor 1893 - 1980

As quoted in Informationweek issues 699-702 (1998), p. 497 http://books.google.com/books?id=cDxVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Politics+is+developing+more+comedians+than+radio+ever+did.%22&dq=%22Politics+is+developing+more+comedians+than+radio+ever+did.%22&hl=en&ei=mre7TbTaFJCcgQfJk6noBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA

„As long as you're billed as a comedian, I guess you can say anything.“

—  Tom Lehrer American singer-songwriter and mathematician 1928

Quotes from interviews, Insider Audio interview (1997)
Contesto: I remember when Richard Pryor said something about how in South Africa, all the black people should pick up guns and kill all the white people, and they went right on with the interview, and nobody stopped him on that. "Oh good old Richard, what a card." As long as you're billed as a comedian, I guess you can say anything.

„The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.“

—  Lenny Bruce comedian and social critic 1925 - 1966

referred to by Paul Krassner in Lenny Bruce: Swear to tell the truth 1998 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0175844/