Top 195 Sitcom Quotes

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.

The live performance aspect of shooting a multicamera sitcom is wonderful. You have that instant audience reaction.

Some writers and producers are currently writing a sitcom for me, so we’ll see what happens there. I’m somewhat reluctant to talk about some of the upcoming projects that I’m working on; I’ve a lot of stuff on the go, including five pictures that I’m looking at producing.

Doing a sitcom is like doing a play – you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You’re shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different.

In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it’s like working in the theater.

The charming sitcom is all very well, but good comedy is based on pain and danger and fear.

Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

A lot of people give actors credit when they gain weight for a role in a drama when they win an Oscar, but when you’re doing a sitcom, people don’t give you a lot of credit, because you’ve got to keep your weight on for five or six years if it’s successful.

The great thing about stand up is you get to do other things. You get to do your stand up tours but you also get to do ‘Have I Got News For You.’ You get to do a sitcom, but you also get to do the ‘Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice.’ I’m easily bored, so I like the variety.

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

If you’re on a network show, it’s either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you’re servicing a procedure.

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 think people have a hard time thinking that I could’ve done a sitcom.

I went from a sitcom to a hospital drama, feature films. I’ve kind of been living the actor’s dream. I’m not associated with one role or one medium. You’re lucky if you’re associated with one hit show.

I’d be somewhat disinclined to be responsible for the fortunes of a franchise that uses a sitcom as their philosophical north star.

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.

I would love to have my own show, and whatever movies come up, that would be fun to do too. But I love TV, and I love the art of the half-hour sitcom.

I think a season of ‘Atlanta’ bounces back between classic sitcom structure and genre movies.

People don’t realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You’re out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off – it’s not like doing a sitcom.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors – they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It’s paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They’re drawn to it as a career move.

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

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 husband. In the sitcom world, it’s almost a cliche that the women have the common sense, going back to ‘The Honeymooners.’

It would be interesting if this sitcom works, so I could be doing one thing all the time instead of going back and forth between all this different media which I sort of thrive on, I’m a bit of a moving target in that way.

I couldn’t see myself doing a traditional sitcom.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called ‘Whacked Out.’ We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.

It’s much harder to have a BBC One sitcom than to have a tour of stand-up.

With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer’s.

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.

I don’t want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don’t even watch TV.

The lazy part of me would love to do a sitcom where I could work three days a week and make a fortune.

Sitcom food is by far the tastiest of all showbiz food.

The TV schedule is fantastic. It allows you to have a life. Theater actors are so disciplined – especially if you’re doing musicals, you have to be in shape physically, mentally, and have to be on your game all the time. That’s exhausting. On TV, especially a sitcom, you have a lot of free time to play.

I would never turn down a movie, but at the same time, but my ideal job would be a half-hour sitcom.

I’m a sitcom junky. And I love rom coms. Mind candy.

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.

What makes ‘Derek’ a different kind of sitcom – if it is even a sitcom – is its sincerity.

Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded… They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.

Marriage was never a dream or an ambition for me. I thank my real mother for the fact that – unlike my sitcom mother – she never put any pressure on me or my sister to marry.

I did this TV show, which was my first job ever. It wasn’t a real acting part. It was like this promo for this sitcom and the main actress was meeting three different real people and then she was going to decide who was going to be on the episode.

Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.

I am pleased to say that as I get older, I get less and less like the sitcom ‘Miranda.’ She is really a clown character, a heightened version of the 20-something me.

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.

I’ve thought my show would be a sitcom or a talk show. Never in a million years would I have thought my show would be docu-series/reality because you always think reality is something crazy.

I’ve always had a good imagination. If I saw a sitcom, and everything was made out of cheese, I wouldn’t go ‘What?’ I wouldn’t get angry. I’d think, ‘Right, OK, all cheese? Amazing.’

I hate moaning comics, but I do find it very frustrating when I switch on BBC Four or BBC Two to find they’re repeating some piece of crap sitcom. I think: Why don’t they show mine? Not because I’d make any money, it would just be nice for it to be shown.

Writing a sitcom compared with writing a novel is a bit like the difference between going on a big, noisy group holiday compared with a solitary march to the South Pole.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

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.

Sadly, marriage has become a punchline in today’s society. From referring to the wife as ‘the old ball and chain’ to nearly every poorly written sitcom that we watch, the message we’re sending to today’s generation is clear… Marriage = no fun.

If I told my 18-year-old self that one day I’d have a sitcom and a sketch show on TV, I think he’d just drum his fingers and go, ‘When? How long is that going to take?’

In 2015, I was at a high point in my career: Superstore,’ the sitcom I star in as Dina, premiered on NBC and was getting rave reviews. But at the same time, my health hit rock bottom.

I’m always down to do a sitcom. I did ‘That ’80s Show’ back in the day and that was a really great experience.

To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn’t write.

Nobody’s ever kept their sitcom character going after the show’s off the air.

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.

Sitcom hours are silly easy compared to drama. Whenever an actor on a sitcom complains, I feel like smacking them!

I watched a lot of ‘I Love Lucy.’ Then I went to college, and I didn’t watch TV, really. I don’t know: something happened after ‘Friends’ went off the air. I think something dipped in the whole sitcom world.