Sitcom Quotes

“TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee.”
― John Updike, Rabbit at Rest

“One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly — maybe — and it will become a language like Latin that learned people learn. And scholars will write studies of Larry Sanders and Friends and Will & Grace and Ellen and Designing Women and Mary Tyler Moore, and everyone will see that the sitcom is the great American art form. American poetry will perish with the language; the sitcoms, on the other hand, are new to human evolution and therefore will be less perishable.”
― Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist

“We were watching a sitcom, I don't remember which. There were many of them at the time that all could be lumped together under the title of Funny Minority and the White Guy.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter by Design

“Laughing is a gazillion times more likely than praying to leave you grateful to be alive.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Real life is not like what you see on TV.”
― Bryant A. Loney, Sea Breeze Academy

“Acho que as pessoas querem ler sobre as coisas que mais desejam e que experimentam menos.”
― Michael Crichton, Westworld

“As 30 Rock’s Liz Lemon would say, ‘I want to go to there.”
― Lucy Mangan, Inside Charlie's Chocolate Factory: The Complete Story of Willy Wonka, the Golden Ticket, and Roald Dahl's Most Famous Creation.

“When I Make It Shine" -- Tori Vega”
― Tori Vega

“Esther Rolle (an African American actress who had previously played Florida Evans on the spin-off series Good Times, 1974–79), opened up with how frustrating her last few seasons on Good Times were. She resented the silly direction the show had gone in from its roots as a social commentary on a lower-class black family. She reenacted for me a scene in which her son, played by Jimmie J. J. Walker, was supposed to simply take an apple out of the refrigerator but hammed it up with a lot of over the top mugging while he pondered what food was there. I was trying not to laugh, because what she found offensive and clownish was funny to me.”
― Fred Stoller, Maybe We'll Have You Back: The Life of a Perennial TV Guest Star