Quotes About Entertainment

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.

Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs.

Puns are the highest form of literature.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

T.V. has brought murder back into the home where it belongs.

In after-dinner talk,Across the walnuts and the wine.

And now for our entertainment when we want humiliation we've got reality TV instead, Iris says. And soon instead of reality TV we'll have the President of the United States.

Why be boring? Have some fun. Rock shows should be like movies: I don't go to a movie hoping it'll change my life.

I remember attending a Friars roast for Muhammad Ali when Don Rickles grabbed me and walked me up to Sinatra. "Hey, Frank," he said to the Chairman of the Board, "tonight I'm sitting with this guy. You know why? Because he fills up baseball stadiums! You play bars." Frank laughed and waved him off, with me standing there silently. Soon

What I liked least about the Plantation Club? They plastered caricatures of us, drawings of darkies with protruding lips and gawking eyes on every matchbook, napkin, menu, and newspaper advertisement associated with or in the Plantation Club. Why? I suspect they hoped their filthy-as-homemade-sin visual lies would inoculate white folk from the shock of Black beauty. That left me, and many of the rest of the entertainers, exodusing for the inner sanctum of drunk.

Can Chris Rock swing by tonight? And by the way, he's bringing David Blaine with him.

We watch a lot of Discovery Channel, shows like 'The Biggest Loser' and even 'Amazing Race.' You learn a lot about the world, it's fun and nobody's interested in beating anybody down. And then the opposite: I'm a huge fan of 'Survivor.'

With reality TV, sometimes it's amazing chemistry and you get these gems that turn out to be everything you hoped, and the camera loves them and they just blossom on the show. And then sometimes it's not all you envision.

I'm a fan of daytime drama I totally get it. When we are doing scenes that are romantic or will get the audience riled up, I feel like I'm a fan in the room going, 'People are going to be so mad right now!'

When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure [has become] entertainment.

If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.

Television enters not only the room, but also the tastes of old and young alike, appealing to the immediately pleasant and subverting whatever does not conform to it.

It took nearly a year for Food Network to produce a show starring Justin, Rebel Eats, a one-off budget road trip program. No future episodes were announced.