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 love that 'Black-ish' is a pretty traditional sitcom, structurally. It functions like the sitcoms from the '80s and '90s that I grew up with.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.'
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.
Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups.
I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.
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.
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.
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.
Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.
I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.
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.
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.
I've seen episodes of 'Friends' which are as funny as any sitcom I've ever seen.
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.
I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.
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.
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.
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
It's very rare for the Internet to have a successful narrative show like 'MyMusic.' It's really a case study for what is the future of the sitcom.
The lazy part of me would love to do a sitcom where I could work three days a week and make a fortune.
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 told me that British sitcom was dead. Then I looked at 'Seinfeld' and 'Frasier' and thought, 'No it's not, it just needs more gags.'
I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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.
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.
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.
In those stupid online polls to find the best sitcom ever, 'Father Ted' never gets the credit it deserves.
Working in network sitcom arenas, whenever you decide to depart from the norm and tell a story that's not typical, I think you're always a little bit nervous.
I would love to do a sitcom. I see myself as an older woman, getting married, and her stepchildren, who are in their twenties, move back home.
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.
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
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.
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.
My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
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.
What I love most is television, and I would love to work on a sitcom.
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.
My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.
If one of my friends said they'd written a little role for me in a sitcom, I'd definitely do it and I'd enjoy it. But I have no interest in being a serious actor.
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.
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.
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 try to make a great sitcom that would make my heroes proud of me.
I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.
A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn't want to.
We've talked about a sitcom and a comedy drama. It's getting the right project and working with the right people.
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.
I was fired from an NBC sitcom called 'Friends With Benefits.' I was wrong for the part from the beginning, didn't even want to audition, and kept thinking, 'This isn't funny at all.'
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.
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.
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.
I'm not sure sometimes if it was because Will was gay or it was a sitcom. But that combination does make it hard to become the new lead on the 'Sopranos.'
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.
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.
I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.
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