Subject: Entertainment (Page 25)

Prodigy: A child who plays the piano when he ought to be in bed.

(1893 – 1979) English humorist

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood – Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

(1945 – ) American actress, film director & producer

Milton was probably the best at dealing with hecklers, but then he probably had the most practice.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

I’m always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I’m not going to offend!

(1926 – 2017) American stand-up comedian & actor

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

Anonymous: Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?

Lennon: He’s not even the best drummer in the band.

(1940 – 1980) English rock musician, singer & songwriter

Kind of like the difference between making love and masturbation, I’d say.

(1946 – ) American actress & activist

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


If you're gonna blame teen sex on rock 'n' roll, why don't we just blame incest on country and western?

comedian

I doubt that art needed [John] Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter

Musicals: a series of catastrophes ending with a floorshow.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

Art, like morality, consists in drawing a line somewhere.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained… I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction… I can get all that at home.

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian

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

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

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Berlioz, musically speaking, is a lunatic; a classical composer only in Paris, the great city of quacks.

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

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

We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

You don't even know what they're selling until the very end: three rabbits are on a log, and one of them goes home and hangs himself – 'Buy a bike!'

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

The pain goes away on payday.

(1902 – 1975) comedian, actor & member of The Three Stooges