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.