Quotes About Entertainment

Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.

The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on it as well. There was a lot of people to write funny stuff for.

I had a couple of decent laughs on Townies, but for the most part, delivering a joke that you just know is not funny is hard.

Keep your sense of humor. Stay funny.

By putting myself out there the way I've been doing people see me as a real person. Even though I do character voices and funny noises the stories are still real and I put them all out there.

I know enough football to know that's funny!

It's harder to be funny from the position of power.

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.

The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.

People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

I observe everything around me and when something hits me and it's funny, that's what I talk about. I'm a more observational kind of comic.

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.

You're basically the same person forever so you find the same stuff funny forever. The Muppet Show spoke to me at 5 and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

The real question is how do you stay funny in your 70s and 80s? And that's a real accomplishment, you know, the longevity.

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.