Subject: Entertainment (Page 31)

If it wasn't for white people, who would play lead guitar?

(1954 – ) American actress & comedian

Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn… then went to a steam bath and came out looking like Clark Gable.

(1926 – 1991) American television journalist

When I die, there will be people who send flowers to Ethel Mertz.

(1902 – 1979) American actor

Watching Tallulah Bankhead on the stage is like watching somebody skating on thin ice – everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

(1865-1940) English actress

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

[Walking Tall] stars The Rock, but The Wood might be a better description of his performance.

film reviewer & critic

I don't know what was wrong with my television last night, but I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station, and I actually bought a congressman.

(1951 – ) American comedian & writer

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

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

You know what I think about people who don't like rape jokes… f**k em!

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

My friend George is a radio announcer and when he walks under a bridge you can’t hear him talk.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I like to hold hands at the movies… which always seems to startle strangers.

(1967 – ) is an American comedian & actor

In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

Support bacteria – they're the only culture some people have.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Never buy a man a plasma TV until you’re married; a lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don’t need a girlfriend.

(1963 – ) American comedian & author

Accordion: A pleated bagpipe.

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director

If he’d been making shell cases during the war it might have been better for music.

(1835 – 1921) French Late-Romantic composer, conductor & pianist

I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover.'

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

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