Famous quotes containing the words comedy series, television, comedy and/or series:
“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.”
—Monty Pythons Flying Circus. first broadcast Sept. 22, 1970. Michael Palin, in Monty Pythons Flying Circus (BBC TV comedy series)
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religionor a new form of Christianitybased on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)
“It is comedy which typifies, where it is tragedy which individualizes; where tragedy observes the nice distinctions between man and man, comedy stresses those broad resemblances which make it difficult to tell people apart.”
—Harry Levin (b. 1912)
“Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)