Quotes About Entertainment

Comedy, Lorne often said, is too important to be left to professionals.

O'Donoghue's attitude, his manager Barry Secunda said, was that if America liked Saturday Night, how good could it be?

Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.

Women's football is crap. If it were any good people would go and watch it, but it isn't and they don't. And, to be honest, I doubt they ever will.

Kubey and Csikszentmihalyi report that 2 out of 5 adults and 7 out of 10 children say that they watch too much TV. Also, viewers often feel that they can't stop watching TV. Furthermore, while people report increased good moods after activities such as sports and hobbies, they report being in the same mood or in a worse mood after watching TV

Given the findings that television viewers enjoy violent and nonviolent programs equally (or enjoy nonviolent more than violent), how is it that media executives still follow the mantra "violence sells"? The answer: because violence brings a larger viewership

The propensity of research participants to choose violent programs suggests that people are drawn to view violent programs. However, in the end, those choosing violent programs may end up not enjoying them.

fewer than 5 percent of violent programs featured an anti-violence message. In other words, almost all TV violence is glamorized or celebrated in the storyline.

The media industry's double standard of seeking to introduce digital devices and content into schools as powerful educational tools while disputing that children learn from or are changed by entertainment media: does not square with logic.

TV and the Internet are good because they keep stupid people from spending too much time out in public.

exactly the way he hoped to die, which he decided should involve the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders and his heart giving out from exhaustion.

a chilled bottle of red wine.

And most important to her, he possessed a great sense of humor,

Doogie mouse, apparently after a very old television show.

To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness. Was the sum of European endeavour and achievement really meant to culminate in this?

To immerse oneself in popular culture for any length of time is to wallow in an almost unbearable shallowness.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability.

Oh you liked the movie? The book is better

For a host, above all, must be kind to his guests.

Fiction Is My Addiction

And, now, come to this spot Where the spotlight is hot And you'll see in the spotlight A Juggling Jott Who can juggle some stuff You might think he could not... Such as twenty-two question marks, Which is a lot. Also forty-four commas And, also, one dot! That's the kind of Circus McGurkus I've got!

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like All My Children.