I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary.
If you're watching a comedian on television and he's making a political point, I would say he's gotten too serious.
I'm a comedian who happens to be Muslim; my comedy stems on all forms of my identity.
What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.
The job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but a lot of my interests are in politics so I'm going to use that.
If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.
When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'
There are a lot of comedians that were bullied and picked on, and that's why they became comedians. Survival of the fittest.
Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
When comedians get successful, the fans that they have aren't the fans they would hang out with. I don't have that problem.
I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.
All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'
Comedians second-guessing themselves is scary. Poor taste is not a crime and we can't forget that.