I can't write a sitcom.

The hardest thing to write is sitcom.

— Sean Lock

I need to write a sitcom, but something with warmth, not one where the dad comes home and he's treated like an idiot.

— Jens Lekman

The characters are not allowed to change if you write a sitcom; they're not allowed to learn anything. There's all these sorts of rules,…

— Alice Lowe

I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest.…

— Garry Marshall

I'd like to write a play, and I'd like to write a sitcom, but these things take a lot of application. It would be…

— Tim Key

Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and her doofus…

— Jake Weber

I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched…

— Mike Epps

I think a challenge with every sitcom is, how do you maintain things that people are attached to without becoming so reiterative that it…

— Zach Woods

I mean, sitcoms shouldn't be doing 'Saturday Night Live.' You can't just do bit after bit after bit. You have to string it together…

— Joyce DeWitt

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,…

— Jess Walter

Sitcom writing is difficult because it's not just about writing jokes - there's a very fine balance between characters, plot, and comedy, that if…

— Josh Widdicombe

I am actually working on The Neighbors sitcom. We are starting from scratch. I am also working on a comedy movie and a vampire…

— Tommy Wiseau

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music…

— Peter Tork

Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take…

— John Cleese

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

— Julie Benz