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Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.
Vir Das
I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
Omar Sy
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After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.
Howard Carter
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Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.


Shelley Berman
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I've done a lot of drama in my career, but I'm actually more comfortable doing comedy.


Coby Bell
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.


Larry David
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I am not keen just for the position; I'm keen to help and to serve. If I can really avoid any bad things on my country, I will not hesitate one second.
Najib Mikati
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I started out more interested in drama, but comedy just came naturally to me, and it's become what I'm most known for, even though my sensibilities still lean towards the dramatic for the most part.
Paulo Costanzo
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
Nate Silver
You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.
Steve Harvey
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Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.


Aziz Ansari
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No one remembers who came in second.


Walter Hagen
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Yes, there have been women in comedy. Moms Mabley was one of the earliest. She was an African American comedian; she often dressed up as an older, disheveled woman.
Rebecca Traister
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Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.
Trishelle Cannatella
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Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.


Al Franken
Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.
Rowan Atkinson
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We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen
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I've actually done a lot of comedy.


Natalie Zea
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This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.


Douglas Hofstadter
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If you stretch tragedy, it will always become comedy. That's the comedy that I like.


Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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