Quotes About Entertainment

When you're a comedian, and you show up on set to a job where you're not writing, and you get handed material that's as good as we do on 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' you just feel lucky every day.

Although men doubtless continued to punch each other for fun and bragging rights, the sport as such didn't formally resurface until the late seventeenth century, in Great Britain.

I like to watch Trump, because he just takes my mind off stuff. No matter what happens personally, there's this much greater disaster taking place.

But you would have lots of fun with me. For instance, I am the the greatest ventriloquist that ever lived, I am the first ventriloquist in the world!

Ah, you wouldn't be bored with me! I have more than one trick up my sleeve, not counting card tricks. . . . But you'd have fun with me! There's no one like me. . . there's no like me, for example, when it come to ventriloquism.

Is it any duller than on EARTH? Whose inhabitants spend most of their lives trying to get laid, watching sitcoms on television, and grunting for money?

So basically, you get to play Super Mario all you want, any time you want, for FREE ! That is the single most amazing thing I've ever heard.

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it. . . . Just be real, and it will be funnier.

For those who have never attended a science fiction convention, masquerades are features of most of the larger ones. Awards are presented for best costume, most beautiful costume, most humorous costume, most naked lady, and so on.

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I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food - which they take for granted - but his or her entertainment value. Asmodeus took to his toy enthusiastically. In another week he permitted me to stroke him, producing a raucous purr, but, in order to save his face, pretending to be asleep.

I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food—which they take for granted—but his or her entertainment value.

Usually I enjoy a first night as a surgeon enjoys an operation: this time I enjoyed it as a playgoer enjoys a pleasant performance.

When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.

I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie.

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?

I don't know why people like the home run so much. A home run is over as soon as it starts.... The triple is the most exciting play of the game. A triple is like meeting a woman who excites you, spending the evening talking and getting more excited, then taking her home. It drags on and on. You're never sure how it's going to turn out.

The value of art, in Strict Father morality, lies either in its moral value, its entertainment value, its economic value, or its value as a success symbol—a sign of belonging to an elite. All

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

Really good comedic roles for women are far and between, with the exception of 'Bridesmaids,' where everyone said it broke down so many doors for women - and it did. I would like to do something like that. I think it would be really great!

I didn't think I was a humorless shrew in 'Knocked Up.' I think the women are just as funny as the men are in that movie.

Women are hilarious.

I've won several Emmys, a Tony and a Grammy, so maybe somebody will let me have an Oscar, and then I'll have a full set.