Exposed Quote by Robert Mankoff

There are quite detailed rules with sitcom. When people can leave scenes, act structure, joke rhythm. You can't not have a straight man.

— Bob Mortimer

A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when…

— Mike O'Malley

The media we surround ourselves with allows us to manufacture our own experience every day, which is a perception of the world that is…

— Rick Alverson

Everyone has their personal topics. My comedy has always been very strong on observational humor, it stems from what I see every day in…

— Iliza Shlesinger

I never wanted to do observational humor because I never wanted to tell people what they were seeing.

— Richard Lewis

It's the opposite on a sitcom. People crave the character to not learn from their mistakes. They want to just see the situation, and…

— Ty Burrell

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 had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it…

— Ellen DeGeneres

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only…

— Tom Bissell

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