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In those stupid online polls to find the best sitcom ever, 'Father Ted' never gets the credit it deserves.
I would like to direct a sitcom like 'Sumit Sambhal Lega.' It was interesting. It had a great script also.
Not Going Out' is a pretty neutral sitcom - to quote the 'Seinfeld' thing, it's not really about anything.
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.
If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.
When I did the sitcom I was too naive. I thought, Well, they know what they're talking about, let's do that.
The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.
I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did 'That '80s Show' back in the day and that was a really great experience.
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.
I loved comedy, but I never saw myself as a sitcom guy. I envisioned myself doing an hour drama or doing movies.
We've talked about a sitcom and a comedy drama. It's getting the right project and working with the right people.
Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!
Because I am a character actor, I thought I would be the fourth or eighth banana on a sitcom, and that would be OK.
The live performance aspect of shooting a multicamera sitcom is wonderful. You have that instant audience reaction.
Finding a way to find humor in things that are hardcore is definitely something that, I think, the sitcom does best.
Five years is a good run for a sitcom; seven is good, but usually, it's a couple years of staying past your welcome.
You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them.
I need to write a sitcom, but something with warmth, not one where the dad comes home and he's treated like an idiot.
I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
I'm not really that political and I love the idea of a sitcom. But a lot of people want me to become the next Jon Stewart.
The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations.
Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
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.
I love working in television and in comedy, so whenever there's an opportunity to work on a TV sitcom, I'm like, 'Yes please!'
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.
I didn't want to have to follow 'Everybody Loves Raymond' with another sitcom. Let it be my sitcom legacy, and leave it at that.
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.
I was on a sitcom called 'Gary Unmarried' for 37 episodes, and then I was in 'Bad Teacher' with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake.
My mom always worked, and I certainly don't want to look back and think, 'Well, I don't have kids, but I'm glad I did that sitcom.'
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.
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.
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 like the variety of characters that you can play in films, rather than playing the same role for 10 years as you might on a sitcom.
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.
Every comic is taught that you're supposed to have a great seven-minute set and then get a sitcom. And I don't want to get the sitcom.
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.
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.
With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.
30 Rock is a little different from other current sitcoms, in that it's fast-paced, but the pace comes from the actors, not the editing.
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.'
There are quite detailed rules with sitcom. When people can leave scenes, act structure, joke rhythm. You can't not have a straight man.
Everyone in L.A. talks about getting an agent or a manager in terms of getting on a sitcom or getting on a movie or doing something else.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I've never done anything like 'Brotherhood' before. It was a great challenge to take up a part in a live audience sitcom - it was amazing.
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
It's been an interesting progression, going from soap to a sitcom with 'How I Met Your Mother' and now being a series regular on 'Homeland.'