Quotes About Entertainment

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.

Apparently the nation's future lay not in innovation and development but in global finance and telesales, in the entertainment industry and coffee shops.

Jake the trapeze artist was a man who stared death in the face, while most nights I stared television in the face.

Watching too much TV can triple our hunger for more possessions, while reducing our personal contentment by about 5 percent for every hour a day we watch.

Television is the creamy filling that distracts us from the substance our lives

Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.

Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I don't want you to tell me that you find it 'creative.' I want you to find it so interesting that you buy the product.

I still do think fondly about my days in Edendale and Mixville — the little-known corners of the city limits where the movies actually were born. Tucked into the once barren hills just west of Downtown were the studios of Western hero Tom Mix and fledgling cartoonist Walt Disney. Behind razor wire near Glendale Boulevard lingered a small stone monument to Comedy. Why? Because the ancient Selig Company had once made movies there.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

In 1996 the Queen traveled to Toronto to catch Diahann Carroll playing the lead in a new staging of Sunset Boulevard. "She didn't realize it wasn't going to be freezing," said Erma, "so she ordered up a mink coat from one of the better department stores. Because the coat was so enormous, she decided it required a ticket of its own. She and her coat sat together on the front row. It was hysterical.

I often talk about how great it is to live just a half hour from New York City, which provides me access to the finest theaters, museums, and restaurants in the world. The way I take advantage of this access is to hang out every night at Charlie's, which is about eight minutes from my house.

Classical music is not really my thing, and I know absolutely nothing about it. If you told me you saw Brendel play Brahms last night, I would ask you who won.

She's reading a thriller by David Rosenfelt, one of the great writers of our time,

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

But most good movies have a gun in them.

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

They were all helpless. They didn't ask to be born and they didn't ask to die. They were made to. But why, in between, did there have to be such pain? Perhaps humankind was more amusing that way. Perhaps they provided entertainment

We're not in an Age of Politics, we're in an Age of Netflix. It's who can tell the most compelling story who wins.

It's funny because it's funny.

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

When I started, you didn't make a lot of money by being a comedian. You didn't get a lot of respect.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

The clip-joints are filled every night with marks who crave the tat," said one con man. "If you gave one of them an even break, it would spoil his evening.