Quotes About Entertainment

Duelo de ingenio con el inspector Ford El secuestro extravagante Os quiere, Kermit. P.S. Esto no es una broma. Adjunto una broma para que podáis apreciar la diferencia

El experimento del profesor Kugelmass -¿Y qué quiere que yo le haga? El mundo de la magia es así. Todo matices. -Matices, un cuerno.

For the written record in this personal document, let me simply say to me, Groucho Marx, W. C. Fields, and Elaine May are indisputably funny, with S.J. Perelman the funniest human of my time on earth.

Lo más importante en la vida es estar distraído. Hay que buscarse problemas lo suficientemente difíciles de resolver para evitar estar preocupados por los verdaderos problemas. Los problemas relacionados con el amor son bastante entretenidos. ¿Me querrá esa mujer? El amor es una forma de evitar pensar en la vida

I had decided to delight the audience by playing my soprano saxophone for their delectation (years later, a music critic would describe my playing at a concert as "excruciating").

soprano saxophone for their delectation (years later

There are millions of comedians around or certainly there were when I started. They play nightclubs, or on TV, or at private functions, and they all need material: jokes, bits, routines, something to say. Most of them were not very good as evidenced by the fact that they needed other people to put words in their mouth, funny words. If left on their own, they couldn't coax a chuckle from a manic fat man on laughing gas.

You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes.

The only criticisms I have are that, one, many are gratuitously dirty. Remember, I'm saying gratuitously. I don't mind dirty when it contributes to the funny routine, but since language was liberated in the sixties, it's embarrassing to hear acts punctuate their material with the old so-called dirty words. Apparently, the

You can tell from my movies; while some are entertaining, no idea I ever had is going to start any new religion.

Where did all these thirsty comics come from? I never knew a monologist to keel over from dehydration. Actors play hours of Shakespeare without Hamlet or Lear sneaking behind a drape for a belt of Poland Spring water.

I wrote one single joke for Don Adams. Jonathan Winters needed nothing from anyone; he was simply a genius.

I think I can safely say I'm the only American stand-up comic who played the Eiffel Tower.

I was obsessed with gangsters, baseball players, jazz musicians, and Bob Hope movies, but young women have been a tiny fraction of the women I dated over the decades. I have used the May-December ploy as a comic and romantic theme a few times, just as I have used psychoanalysis or murder or Jewish jokes, but only as good material for plots and laughs.

It's all schlock," the impresario railed. "Chazerei for pubescent sub-mentals.

Caesar and The Honeymooners—two very different great comedians, Sid and Jackie Gleason.

Dianne Wiest, Julie Kavner so terrific

Sid had a cerebral band of writers, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Mel Tolkin, Lucille Kallen, Mike Stuart, Shelly Keller, Neil Simon, not to mention contributors like Carl Reiner, Howie Morris, and Sid himself.

Stories full of metaphors are by writers who play the language like a mandolin for our entertainment, novelists

These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.

Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.

I am thoroughly convinced that these ignorant humans really think us other animals exist just to entertain them. How egotistical can they be?

I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.