Subject: Entertainment (Page 13)

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

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

Accordion: An instrument whose music is long drawn out.

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.

Remember the good old days when the only bomb you had to worry about on a plane was the Rob Schneider movie?

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

American author

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken.

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

Violinist: A high-strung musician.

The secret of my piano playing is that I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist

Over a fifteen-year period Jack raised almost $6,000,000 for the benefit of classical music; of course, a lot of people claimed that that was his way of paying for the damage he'd caused it.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

My husband went to Radio Shack and got some dog ears for the TV.

If Michaelangelo had been a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.

1944) is an American writer & screenwriter

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

(1889 – 1974) American intellectual, writer, reporter & political commentator

I practice when I’m loaded.

(1925 – 1985) American jazz saxophonist

My friend George is a radio announcer and when he walks under a bridge you can’t hear him talk.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

If you must keep groaning, please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist

I went to see that Pavarotti last week… he doesn't like it when you join in.

(1930 – 2007) English comedian & nightclub owner

Acting is all about big hair and funny props… all the great actors knew it.

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer

This is the method taught in the Elizabeth Hurley school of acting: If you happen to be a vapid idiot, always play one in the movies and audiences will love you for your self-mocking sense of fun.

American film critic

It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist