Subject: Entertainment (Page 33)

The mama of Dada.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

On a golf course, Jack had the hands of a violinist; that was fair, because as a violinist, Jack had the hands of a golfer.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

(1867 – 1959) architect, interior designer, writer & educator

Classical Jazz: Rock of ages.

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Charles Farrar Browne (1834 – 1867) humorist

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

(1880 – 1964) Irish dramatist

Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

(1936 – ) television talk show host

The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

(1895 – 1960) American lyricist

All television is children's television.

advertising expert & editor

First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

(1933 – ) English actor

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker

Once he was introduced as "The man who always steals the show – one joke at a time."

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

(1965 – ) comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer & director

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn’t have to go to an osteopath, then there’s something wrong.

(1955 – ) English conductor

[Memorial services are the] cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

(1902 – 1983) English actor

Accordian: An instrument inharmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist