Subject: Entertainment (Page 3)

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

I would like to be able to watch the evening news with my family and not have to explain what oral sex means to my wife.

American comedian & writer

Days off.

(1900 – 1967) American film actor

His approach to the microphone is that of an accused man pleading with a hostile jury.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer

Accordian: An instrument inharmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

If you're gonna see a play about slavery, it's important that you watch it with your white friends because you know they're gonna pick up dinner that night.

American stand-up comedian

Art is long and life is short; here is evidently the explanation of a Brahms symphony.

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

(1925 – ) columnist & journalist

I played a blank tape on full volume; the mime who lives next door complained.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

He should take the horse hairs out of his bow and return them to the tail of the horse.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

I tell ya, comedy is in my blood; I wish it was in my act.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Someone came too sooner.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

Entertainment is a thing of the past, today we’ve got television.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

One time, my own father caught me watching a porno movie… the one thing you don’t want to hear in that situation is, ‘Son, move over.’

(1965 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

Calling Kathy Lee 'entertainment' is like falling off the roof and calling it transportation.

American actor & stand-up comedian

Photograph: A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

There are no requests for jugglers – only ‘Don’t juggle!’

(1979 – ) English comedian, television presenter, screenwriter & actor

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

Keanu Reeves, perhaps worried that he was showing too much range, has purged himself of all expression apart from a worried frown and a sorrowful grimace.

(1966 – ) American journalist & film critic

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can’t hear it.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor