Subject: Entertainment (Page 26)

Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The hula dance is simple: you put some grass on one hip, some more grass on the other hip, and then you rotate the crops.

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

The secret of my piano playing is that I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist

The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

If they liked you, they didn’t applaud – they just let you live.

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

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

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

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

(1958 – ) Australian author

There’s nothing but porn on TV these days. I tell you, it makes me so angry, I sit on the end of my bed and shake my fist at it.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

I have no problem not listening to The Temptations.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

After seeing the opera Tosca, Yogi remarked, “I really liked it, even the music was nice”

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

I play the harmonica, but only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Milton's act was every bit as good as Jessel's or Cantor's; in fact, it wasn't only just as good, it was the same.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

The problem with women in an orchestra is that if they’re attractive it will upset my players and if they’re not it will upset me.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

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

The original Mickey Mouse cartoon was in Mouse, with English subtitles.

comedian

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I went to a karaoke bar last night that didn't play any 70's music…
at first I was afraid, oh I was petrified.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

Devotees of awful filmmaking can't go wrong with this one.

movie critic

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor