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Quotes About Entertainment

Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!'
~ Russell Howard
I have to stop crying when I watch "The View". It's not because of the topics at hand, I just feel sorry for that couch.
~ Zach Galifianakis
Being a comedian, people tell me stuff they shouldn't tell their therapist.
~ Jeff Foxworthy
The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
~ George Jean Nathan
Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.
~ Groucho Marx
You know what make me laugh? Good, clean, honest humor. Not-trying-to-be-funny humor. Like Will Ferrell. Will Ferrell got that kind of humor.
~ Redman
There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.
~ Henny Youngman
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
~ Steve Martin
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them...
~ Evelyn Waugh
A jump lead walks into a bar. The barman says "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."
~ Tommy Cooper
Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious.
~ Mitch Hedberg
If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- Ive got to have them.
~ Ken Dodd
I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realised you could watch it on TV for nothing.
~ Jimmy Carr
If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I admire the Pope. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can tour without an album.
~ Rita Rudner
I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.
~ Mitch Hedberg
I'm not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
The secret to humor is surprise.
~ Aristotle
It's just another of Robin's sayings. Like, 'Holy strawberries, Batman, we're in a jam! Or, Holy Kleenex, Batman, it was right under our nose and we blew it!
~ Karen Marie Moning, Iced
Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions.
~ Johnny Carson
God displayed a sense of humor when he configured the region between our legs an entertainment complex built around a sewage system.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.
~ Fred Allen
Comedy is so hard to do, so it was very cool to do dead pan humor.
~ Brittany Daniel
Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?
~ Frankie Boyle