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As a comedian who's used to, like, punching the jokes, it's hard to teach yourself that that's not the strong choice in the sense that you have to really have to dial it back.

— Allison Tolman

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✓Similar Perspectives

Basically I try not to knock other comedians.

— Robert Webb

The pressure to being a comedian is being funny, but I've given that up, so there is no pressure whatsoever.

— Gilbert Gottfried

Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself.

— Mike Birbiglia

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

— Buddy Hackett

I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy.

— Mike Birbiglia

In comedy you have to be willing to not take yourself seriously, you know? I take comedy really seriously, and so to take comedy seriously, you must not, you cannot, ever take yourself seriously.

— Rob Lowe

I don't like forcing comedy and people just trying to do things just to find a funny beat all the time.

— Martin Lawrence

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

— Tim Matheson

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

— John Leguizamo

✗Opposing Perspectives

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

— Aziz Ansari