Subject: Entertainment (Page 3)

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands – and all you can do is scratch it.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover.'

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

I got a German porno movie… which has subtitles, which is great 'cause, otherwise, I would have had no idea what was going on.

stand-up comedian, writer & actor

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

(1931 – 2014) German-born American director, producer, actor & comedian

The program you've been looking forward to all week will be preempted.

Every Death Cab for Cutie song is the perfect soundtrack to me waiting for it to be over.

comedian

Stand-Up [comedy] is a lot like sex; there's a lot of crying involved and I get paid to do it.

(1982 – ) American actress & comedian

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

(1952 – ) American writer & comedian

Berlioz composes by splashing his pen over the manuscript and leaving the issue to chance.

(1810 – 1849) Polish composer & virtuoso pianist

Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Television is for appearing on – not for looking at.

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

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I don't like sex on television… I keep falling off.


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

The museum boasted owning the original version of Beethoven's unfinished basement.

comedian

A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

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

Last night I did a benefit for the survivors of a benefit I had done the week before. – doing benefits

(1946 – ) American comedian, actor & voice actor

Baptists never make love standing up; they're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing!

(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist