Subject: Entertainment (Page 34)

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments – the very lower bowel of music.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

I got wasted last night, and I hit an animal with my car… in the lobby of Caesar's Palace.

(1965 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor, director & author

Nowadays, the perfect crime is getting caught and then selling your story to TV.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I can’t listen to that much Wagner… I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch; maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Anna Mary Robertson (1860 – 1961) American artist

The musician who invented Swing ought to.

It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it… but occasionally we do.

(1917 – 2010) American singer & actress

Last night, me and my girlfriend watched three DVDs back to back… luckily, I was the one facing the telly.

(1967 – ) English actor, writer & comedian

I can’t watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

(1961 – 1994) comedian

The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

(1932 – 2011) British-American actress

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

Dance like it hurts… love like you need money… work when people are watching.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

(1905 – 1982) American poet, translator & critical essayist

An actor enters through a door, you've got nothing; but if he enters through a window, you've got a situation.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

Lots of comedians have people they try to mimic… I mimic my shadow.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

You might be a redneck if… an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger changed your life.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

(1886 – 1963) literary critic, biographer & historian