Sitcom Quotes
My whole experience into the sitcom world, it was, like, "This is like theater, this is like film... This is a hybrid of everything I love to do. A live audience and rehearsals and... more food!"
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.
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.
The only way I will do a sitcom is if it's hurled at me, and I don't have to work for it.
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.
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.
The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.
When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that.
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.
I'm looking for parts that will challenge me comedically. I would love to be on a multicam sitcom one day, kind of like Friends. I love making people laugh and would like to continue to do so!
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.
My wife, Katey Sagal, has transformed herself from a sitcom cartoon to a dramatic powerhouse.
'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.
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.
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.
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.
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.
I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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
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.
It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom.
The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.
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.
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.
I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'
If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.
When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.
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.
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.
