Quotes About Entertainment

Yeah, I feel super sorry for you that you have to be locked in a car with a guy that looks like Chris Evans after the super soldier serum.

I'm always looking for ways to make people laugh, but I also want to make them think. That's the real challenge of satire.

That's here on CBS, where the 'C' stands for 'Classy' and the 'BS' speaks for itself.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

At CBS, I'm in your house. I'm mindful of that. When I do standup, you're in my home and I can say what I want to.

Well, everyone, welcome to Shark Week. Oh that's on CBS and there's been a lot of cutbacks, so it's just Friday night for a couple of minutes. And we don't have any sharks, just an immigrant with a puppet. Hey, but it's a start!

There's a commercial break coming and I'm very excited about it and you know why? Because that's what keeps daddy in suits.

I do a public access show with puppets. Puppets called actors, TV and movie stars.

I don't think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

The most prolific teachers of critical thinking in my lifetime are stand-up comedians

You can now say the word shit on television." "Even broadcast television?" "There is no more broadcast television, Boss." I thought about the TV set back at my cabin that I hadn't turned on in a long while. "I wondered why mine had stopped working.

Ha-ho, it is another wonderful day at the Red Pony bar and continual soiree.

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

It isn't just a question of keeping her out of the jug. Have you any vague idea of how moral radio is? Goldman would cancel her contract in a minute if this thing broke the wrong way. She'd be all washed up. Radio goes into the home; you've got to keep it clean.

Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.

To be honest, I haven't seen a lot of the current crop of teen movies because there's only so much time and there's nothing that really drives me to do it.

We're all of us prospectors up here, eh, Tyler? Scratchin' for that... that one crack in the ground. Never have to scratch again. I'll let you in on a little secret, Tyler: the gold's not in the ground. The gold's not anywhere up here. The real gold is south of 60 - sittin' in livin' rooms, stuck facin' the boob tube, bored to death. Bored to death, Tyler...Boredom - that's what's wrong. And how do you beat boredom, Tyler?... Adventure.

Leo was reciting from the album covers: "Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Huey Lewis, Paula Abdul? This is like a bad MTV segment of 'Where Are They Now?'" "More like, guess who joined the Columbia House Record Club

Leo was reciting from the album covers: "Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Huey Lewis, Paula Abdul? This is like a bad MTV segment of 'Where Are They Now?'" "More like, guess who joined the Columbia House Record Club when she was

John and Paul always had a special link between them, a chemistry that added to the heat: they knew intuitively how to share the stage and the limelight, how to spar with each other and how to play the audience so that the girls went wild.

The storyteller has always been a valuable member of society. Even in prehistoric times when men hunted wild beasts and lived in caves they sat around the campfire at night and listened to stories. Your profession is one of the oldest in the world and one of the most useful... And we need stories more than ever now. We need stories to entertain us, to help us to forget our troubles, to fill our lives with colour.

There are only two types of people in this world; people who hate clowns, and clowns.