Quotes about Sitcom

Sitcoms are incredibly limiting. When you do a sitcom and it becomes a signature part for you, it's harder to do something else; but if you do a drama, you can get lost in it and have a role to do other things. Votes: 6

Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms. Votes: 4

I'd like to do a show that's not a sitcom. Votes: 4

I'd love to do sitcoms. I think I'm pretty darn funny. Votes: 4

Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups. Votes: 4

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for. Votes: 4

I really loved when I started doing '70s Show,' though I had never acted before, so it was a great training ground being on a sitcom. Votes: 4

I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year. Votes: 4

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the microphones - not the audience. Votes: 4

People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is just not the case in the insect world. Votes: 4

Many, many things are dangerous in our world, commercials and TV are dangerous, and so is the world of sitcoms. But nobody does anything about them because they're turning in alot of money. Votes: 4

I was not looking for a sitcom, because the philosophy at that point was that you had to make a choice: Were you going to do movies or TV? You couldn't cross over. Votes: 4

I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral. Votes: 4

I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for 30 Rock. Some people think were old friends from Second City days. I had always been a fan of Tinas. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom. Votes: 4

I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting. Votes: 4

The striking thing about New Girl is that under all the comedy, theres something about the emotions and reactions that feels very real - much more real than other sitcoms. Like - maybe everybody is sort of laid bare in different ways. Votes: 4

Im ridiculously fortunate to get a chance to experience the sitcom world. The schedule is extremely easy, and you get fed as an artist because youre not only working on a project, but you get to work with cameras, and you get the audience there. Votes: 4

A lot of people are like, "You're doing commercials?" And I honestly feel like those Sierra Mist commercials are better than a lot of sitcoms I get offered. It's hard work, and I'm paid a lot of money, and I do it because I love the soda. Votes: 4

The entertainment business is such a strange, crazy perception business that you're either given way too much respect, like people saying, "You should be the head of the sitcom!" Or you're given no respect, where they're like, "You should audition to be the garbage man that lives four houses down." Votes: 4

My very first job was something called Nobodys Watching, that Bill Lawrence who created Scrubs, it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, Ive been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy. Votes: 4

I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; or something that Ive spent a couple of years developing so it would be exactly the character and exactly in with a huge push behind it; or I would maybe want to do a sitcom; something light and funny. Votes: 4

We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking. Votes: 4

Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food. Votes: 3

When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice. Votes: 3

Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them! Votes: 3

The writers are the stars of every really successful sitcom. Votes: 2

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater. Votes: 2

When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music. Votes: 2

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying. Votes: 2

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me. Votes: 2

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week. Votes: 2

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers. Votes: 2

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does. Votes: 2

I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me. Votes: 2

Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that - unlike my sitcom mother - she never put any pressure on me or my sister to marry. Votes: 2

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better. Votes: 2

I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for '30 Rock'. Some people think we're old friends from 'Second City' days. I had always been a fan of Tina's. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom. Votes: 2

Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know. Votes: 2

In 1977, at age ten, I was cast on the TV sitcom 'Good Times.' My character was Penny, an abused child in desperate need of love. I really didn't want to do the show. I didn't want to be away from my family. Votes: 2

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people. Votes: 2

It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I'm a bit of a moving target in that way. Votes: 2

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic. Votes: 2

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana. Votes: 2

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally. Votes: 2

A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you're doing a sitcom, people don't give you a lot of credit, because you've got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it's successful. Votes: 2

The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life. Votes: 2

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident. Votes: 2

I do feel that there is a little confusion in people's minds between the real me and sitcom Miranda. I am pleased that people identify with the character, but I think they want me to be her and are disappointed that the real Miranda doesn't actually fall into graves or be that rubbish at life. Votes: 2

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.' Votes: 2

I watched some serious '80s television. 'Alice,' 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'Family Ties,' 'Cheers'... every night it was eat dinner, watch 'Cheers.' I was actually on 'Jeopardy' with Rebecca Lobo and Dot Richardson, and we were laughing because I was just nailing every random '80s trivia question - sitcom, theme music, movie, you name it. Votes: 2

I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on. Votes: 2

A sitcom. I hate that word. Votes: 0

I like the sitcom, as a structure. Votes: 0

With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories. Votes: 0

I always wanted to be on a sitcom. Votes: 0

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom. Votes: 0

Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality. Votes: 0

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's Votes: 0

Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman. Votes: 0

I couldn't get laid with a sitcom and a rifle. Votes: 0

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre Votes: 0

I use a method approach to all my sitcom work. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy. Votes: 0

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain! Votes: 0

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good. Votes: 0

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable. Votes: 0

I haven't done the things I've done to be in a sitcom. Votes: 0

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. Votes: 0

Nobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air. Votes: 0

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term. Votes: 0

I've been very busy working on the ABC Family sitcom, 'Baby Daddy.' Votes: 0

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success. Votes: 0

There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me. Votes: 0

My first venture into TV was a half-hour sitcom on Fox called 'Roc.' Votes: 0

I have to say Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever. Votes: 0

When I came out of my mom's womb, I had 'sitcom' stamped on my forehead. Votes: 0

My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse. Votes: 0

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV. Votes: 0

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom. Votes: 0

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film. Votes: 0

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. Votes: 0

While growing up, every sitcom you could think of, I would watch it, and I loved it. Votes: 0

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off. Votes: 0

If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure. Votes: 0

The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations. Votes: 0

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today. Votes: 0

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page. Votes: 0

It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom. Votes: 0

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme. Votes: 0

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama. Votes: 0

Finding a way to find humor in things that are hardcore is definitely something that, I think, the sitcom does best. Votes: 0

When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that. Votes: 0

The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it. Votes: 0

One of my first jobs ever as an actor was working with Julie White on a sitcom called 'Grace Under Fire.' Votes: 0

I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine. Votes: 0

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly. Votes: 0

There's this cornucopia of potential, and it can't be realized until someone works their ass off for it. Even on a Nickelodeon sitcom. Votes: 0

I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids. Votes: 0

I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of. Votes: 0

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical. Votes: 0

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great. Votes: 0

The lazy part of me would love to do a sitcom where I could work three days a week and make a fortune. Votes: 0

I was on a sitcom called 'Gary Unmarried' for 37 episodes, and then I was in 'Bad Teacher' with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. Votes: 0

Reviews are written by people who don't understand the process of sitcom. I don't read reviews of anything. I go by word of mouth. Votes: 0

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom. Votes: 0

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose. Votes: 0

If I was married to a man, and I had the same life situation that I have, it's the perfect recipe for a sitcom. Votes: 0

I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience. Votes: 0

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal. Votes: 0

The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity. Votes: 0

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience. Votes: 0

Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on "Big Bang Theory" lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe Votes: 0

If parents were as concerened about raising their children as they are about the outcome of their sitcom or sports game, this nation would thrive. Votes: 0

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time. Votes: 0

We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different. Votes: 0

Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting. Votes: 0

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep. Votes: 0

The truth is, you win the Lotto. That's really how you have to approach it. You're a lottery winner when you get a sitcom and it goes. Votes: 0

People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it`s as if you were watching a sitcom at 8:30 on Channel 4. Votes: 0

I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything. Votes: 0

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same. Votes: 0

The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that, you have much more observational humor. Votes: 0

Nothing's as easy as it is on a sitcom. Issues that we take care of in 20 minutes on the show can stretch out over years in real families. Votes: 0

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying. Votes: 0

Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters. Votes: 0

The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn't a chance to go deeply into the characters. Votes: 0

I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it won't help you get you a commission. Votes: 0

People would say, Can we develop a sitcom around you? and I would say, Not interested. I'm very happy doing standup and writing and taking my kids to school. Votes: 0

My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.' Votes: 0

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show. Votes: 0

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening. Votes: 0

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s. Votes: 0

When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy. Votes: 0

After my 1985 appearance on 'The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,' I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom. Votes: 0

I'm very lucky to be on 'Melissa and Joey' because it's a multi-cam sitcom, and it was a nice transition from theatre because it's taped in front of a live audience. Votes: 0

Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part. Votes: 0

After months of speculation, the sitcom star Ellen DeGeneres admitted that yes, she's gay. Inspired by her courage, today, diet-guru Richard Simmons admitted that he is really, really, really, really gay. Votes: 0

My favorite sitcom of all time is 'Cheers.' That's a perfect example of how, like, people made fun of Cliff, but you never got the sense that they didn't like Cliff. Votes: 0

There's no audience to wonderfully get in your way when you're doing a single-camera anything, whether it's a sitcom or drama or film. And I do mean that in the best way. Votes: 0

While I had done the movies through Revolution Studios, we own the sitcom. It was a situation where, once the team was assembled, I knew we could create something really, really good. Votes: 0

I Love Lucy,' the first classic, really belonged more to the Wacky Woman genre than the domestic sitcom; 'My Little Margie' and 'I Married Joan' were among the shrill, coarse imitations. Votes: 0

I did five episodes of Townies as Jenna Elfman's boyfriend. I was a guest star, but it was the first time I really got to play laughs in front of a sitcom audience. Votes: 0

CBS really wants me on TV. That's their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change. Votes: 0

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you. Votes: 0

I love the sitcom schedule. It takes a week to make an episode, but we don't work on weekends. I'm usually done in time to get home for dinner with my wife and daughter. Votes: 0

I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future. Votes: 0

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home. Votes: 0

After meeting the family, they really felt like a sitcom family, ... I thought it would be cool if we did a reality show, but told it with the visual language of a sitcom format. Votes: 0

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move. Votes: 0

In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror. Votes: 0

I don't know, on a sitcom, and in theatre especially, you have to really be listening to an audience. And if you're losing them, you can hear the sniffs, and the playbills shuffling and whatnot. Votes: 0