9 quotes found
Stand-up comedian · American · 1961
American stand-up comedian (born 1961)
“I'm a writer. I write checks. Mostly fiction.”
“I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.”
“I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.”
“Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.”
“My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.”
“I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know that?”
“I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that sh...”
“I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.”
“My mother is a ventriloquist – but not professionally. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father. Waiting a beat, Liebman adds, I got my brother to do it.”