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

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

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"I feel I'm as qualified for office as any of the other comedians who are running."

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

Carl Reiner, American Actor

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"You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians."

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"I believe it is important for comedians to know who came before them."

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"My favorite comedians were Jimmy Durante, George Burns, senior citizens."

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"That's why modern corporate movie making has become so laborious that comedians are kind of kicked out by 50."

Dana Carvey, American Comedian

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"The real good comedians, like Chaplin, would make you laugh and a second later, cry."

Martin Landau, American Actor

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"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."

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"I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction."

Bobby Darin, American Musician

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"Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart."

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"The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh."

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"I'm a charming coward; I fight with words."

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"I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed."

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

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"A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it."

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"Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh."

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"If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game."

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"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."

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