Subject: Entertainment (Page 37)

My husband, who hardly ever listens to the radio anymore, has this one on all the time.

When buying a used car, punch the buttons on the radio; if all the stations are rock ‘n’ roll, there’s a good chance the transmission is shot.

(1940 – ) American radio disc jockey

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

(1909 – 2000) Danish-born comedian & pianist

I hope you go before me because I don’t want you singing at my funeral.

(1918 – 2002) Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet & playwright

Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.

(1916 – 1987) television actor & comedian

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

(1908 – 1970) American professor of psychology

We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.

(1907 – 1989) English actor, director & producer

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six.

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

Playing Shakespeare is very tiring; you never get to sit down unless you're a king.

(1884 – 1957) American actress

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

film reviewer & critic

The program you've been looking forward to all week will be preempted.

Shostakovich is without doubt the foremost composer of pornographic music in the history of art.

(1855 – 1937) American musical critic & scholar

An actor enters through a door, you've got nothing; but if he enters through a window, you've got a situation.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

When I dance, people think I’m looking for my keys.

(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter

Nowadays Mitchum doesn’t so much act as point his suit at people.

(1946 – ) British journalist & broadcaster

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

The only part I believed was at the end of the movie when she wouldn't move her ass over and let him on the raft with her.

(1960 – ) American stand-up comedian & writer

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

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

You leave white people alone in constant isolation for thousands of years, you know what their musical contribution is going to be?… Riverdance.

(1959 – ) American actor, stand-up comedian & television host

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality