Quotes About Entertainment

Working in TV, we're in people's living rooms, and everyone has a different relationship to it than with movies. You're there every week; they feel like they know you. They call you by name, and it trips you up.

Never forget your iPod and dvd player during long trips.

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn't love them.

In all my years of performing, no audience member has ever actually assaulted me. I consider this to be the singular triumph of my performing career.

Stand up comedy is an odd way to make a living, one that is regularly tinged with both triumph and despair.

The desire to hear a story, and a story well told, triumphs over Internet, film and television sometimes.

I was the kid who at 12 years old went to NBC studio tours, and I would just answer all these trivia questions on the tour that the pages would ask about 'SNL'. I was that kid.

Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.

People are not impressed by watching interviewees cry. People recognize chat shows with personalities as the trivial things that they are. They're not designed to be deep. Quite frankly, people in show business don't stand up to in-depth scrutiny.

Whenever I get a chance to perform for the troops, that makes me feel that I'm really doing something. That's what I want.

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

I have performed for the troops... in Iraq! They loved it! I loved it... It's all good!

Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up.

It's funny, when guests come over to the house, they want to see my gold medal first and my U.S. Open trophy second.

Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

The trouble with indie music in India is it continues to be overshadowed by Bollywood.

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

I kept thinking that the audience had gone to so much trouble, working their schedules to be there. They had arranged for babysitters and even traveled in from out of town. Oh, how could I not be there for them?

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.

I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.

Trouble is, I don't get to play a lot at the moment because I've just signed a contract where I've got to do 200 shows a year in pubs, so the golf's fallen away a bit.

I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it.

I despise all those who fight for peace. It's only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.

People tend to forget that celebrities are human beings. We live our lives. We try to do what we love, which is music. And to share it with everyone in our job usually is to entertain and to make people forget their troubles.