Quotes About Entertainment

Now a 'funnyman' can get a laugh before opening his mouth - looking funny. Lou Costello was one of your great funnymen. Harry Langdon, Larry Semon; they were all funnymen - they looked funny. W.C. Fields was never a comedian. Slim Summerville was a comedian, yet looked funny. Now if you have both attributes, you are in good shape.

I first came across Langhorne Slim when I saw him play live, and he's an incredibly infectious performer. The way he works the crowd is mind-blowing. You can listen to his music without really listening to his lyrics, but it pays off if you do.

People... need a time to laugh. It's up to us to bonk ourselves on the head and slip on a banana peel so the average guy can say, 'I may be bad, honey, but I'm not as much of an idiot as that guy on the screen.'

My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I don't want to slip into Johnny Borrell mode. I don't want to be singing that there's nothing on TV, nothing on the radio.

We got instant gratification when we would slip in one of our own songs and people would cheer. We started getting a lot of gratification from writing.

When you go to the theater, you are slipping out of your life into someone else's imaginary world.

The Wii is fun, but nothing feels all that accurate or precise. I don't want to play an action game with controls that sloppy.

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

I'm a gambler and love slot machines.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.

Script comes first, then the actors, then you gotta be lucky enough to get the right time slot. Then people have to watch.

I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.

We never wanted to move to a niche slot at 11 at night so that we could be a lot cleverer and bluer. We just want to do those big light-entertainment shows we loved as kids.

Everyone hopes to get a fall slot, but I'm just happy to get on the air.

For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.

I was a slow and lazy reader as a kid. 'The Prince and the Pauper' was the only non-school book I would read, over and over, between television, records and radio, until I picked up my aunt's copy of 'In Cold Blood' and she didn't ask for it back.

When there's an accident, we all have to slow down and watch the accident. We all have to be a little voyeuristic. I mean, look at the world we live in now, with all these 'Big Brother' shows. We're all a bunch of voyeuristic people.

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

If we can make some kind of adjustments, maybe in the game, to make it interesting and slow down the surfaces, then it will be more fun and more interesting.