Audience Quote by Bob Saget

I think somewhere in the '90s, it started to shift, and you started to see a lot of film and television actors doing theater,…

— Zachary Quinto

I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and…

— Simon Helberg

Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the '80s, but toward the end of that, in the early '90s, people started doing…

— Eugene Mirman

I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the…

— Bill Irwin

There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor…

— Sally Field

There was a sea of change in comedy in the late 1950s and '60s. We were dealing with vignettes as opposed to jokes. We…

— Bob Newhart

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from…

— Larry Wilmore

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

— Denis Norden

I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era…

— Carmen Ejogo

In '82 and '83, that was the rise of the VCR. Every Friday, my brother and I would go to Crazy Eddie's - which…

— Colson Whitehead

I think I was starting to get interested in comedy at quite a pivotal moment. It was around the beginning of alternative comedy, and…

— Rebecca Front

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

— Julie Andrews