Subject: Entertainment (Page 8)

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Fiddle: An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

(1886 – 1963) literary critic, biographer & historian

The Three Ages of Marriage: Twenty is when you watch the TV after; Forty is when you watch the TV during; Sixty is when you watch the TV instead.

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

Art is science made clear.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

The only reason Woodstock was necessary is because they didn't have iTunes.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

He doesn't remember any silent days in motion pictures – the director always yelled.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist

When will I learn? The answer to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle, they’re on TV!

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

Does it have a happy ending?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Paranoia is a bad personality trait for a comedian; what are you laughing at?

(1974 – ) Scottish comedian

You might be a redneck if… your down where you come from reruns of Hee Haw are called documentaries.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

He hasn't just lost the plot, he's lost the whole library!

God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

(1942 – ) humorist & radio broadcaster

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

(1961 – 1994) comedian

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures; of these, 3,000 are still in existence.

(1845 – 1929) German art historian & curator

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

She speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer

The people who gave us golf and called it a game are the same people who gave us bag pipes and called it music.