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Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

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.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

I've always wanted to have a Greek sitcom called Olive Lucy.

I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off.

My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom.

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

I probably would be continuing to do voice-overs, continuing to do cartoon shows, and at the same time I'd probably be on a sitcom or a dramatic television show.

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

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

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

Actors are embracing a new aesthetic, which is leaning more toward truthful and simple and direct, as opposed to what we would normally call sitcom acting.

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.

I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre

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

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

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

I'm a latecomer to popular TV. This is rather new to me, being in a sitcom. It's been an ambition of mine.

My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.

I had not met Tina Fey before I auditioned for 30 Rock. Some people think were old friends from Second City days. I had always been a fan of Tinas. But I actually never planned on being in a sitcom.

If you ask me, you see, I prefer doing film. The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral.

I'd love to do sitcoms. I think I'm pretty darn funny.

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror.

A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows they're putting out are all the same.

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have much more observational humor.

I just want to continue to do comedy. Comedy, I'm discovering, is my niche. It's what I'm born to do, so I would love to have my own sitcom one day in the future.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'

After my 1985 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, I was wooed by producers in Hollywood, who told me they wanted to turn my act into a sitcom.

The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.

People are doing sitcoms on stage rather than theater. You go to the theater, and it's as if you were watching a sitcom at 8:30 on Channel 4.

I have to say Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever.

I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.