Subject: Entertainment (Page 13)

In the city, a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

(1672 – 1719) English essasyist, poet & politician

Like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

I love sports; whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

(1913 – 2006) 36th U.S. president

You might be a redneck if… your stereo speakers used to belong to the Moonlight Drive-in Theater.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

If there are only two shows worth watching, they will be on at the same time.

I thought Deep Throat was a movie about a giraffe.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Every child is an artist; the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

(1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker & stage designer

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

Wet she’s a star; dry she ain’t.

(1891 – 1951) comedian, singer, theater & film actress

I'm not an actor, and I enclose met press cuttings to prove it.

(1915 – 1999) American stage, film & television actor

The hula dance is simple: you put some grass on one hip, some more grass on the other hip, and then you rotate the crops.

I used to work for a living, then I became an actor.

(1927 – ) English actor

Sarah Brightman couldn't act scared on the New York subway at four o'clock in the morning.

(1943 – 2007) American film critic

You know what I think about people who don't like rape jokes… f**k em!

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

(1889 – 1977) English comedian, actor & film director

Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles.

(1852 – 1933) author, educator & clergyman

Television opened up a whole new field of unemployment for him.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president

I would imagine if you could understand Morse Code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor