Quote of the Day (Janeane Garofalo, on Stairmaster, Her Idea of Hell)

“When you die, apparently, some people believe that your hell is whatever your mind’s-eye idea of hell is. Unfortunately, I’ve come face to face with what mine is, all right? I’m going to be sentenced to the Stairmaster ring of Dante’s Inferno, where I have to get on a Stairmaster and they’re going to tape my feet to the pedals. And the only music I get is Michael Bolton, karaoke-style from a drunken secretary on Margarita Night.”—Stand-up comedian and actress Janeane Garofalo, from Comedy Central, 1993 appearance

The image accompanying this post shows Ms. Garofalo at the world premiere of Bad Parents at the Montclair Film Festival, taken Oct. 3, 2012, by Edwin Torres.

Tweet of the Day (Alyssa Limperis, on a Night Made for Walking)

“ ‘Gorgeous night for a walk’—me moving from couch to chair.” —@alyssalimp, a.k.a. actress-comedian Alyssa Limperis, tweet of Sept. 28, 2020

That amount of activity is especially appropriate for heat waves, such as the ones we’ve been having so far this summer.

Joke of the Day (David Lee Roth, on His Former Exercise Regimen)

"I used to jog, but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass." —Rock ‘n’ roller David Lee Roth quoted in Mike Breen, “Cover Story: Eddie Van Who?” City Beat, May 23, 2002

Photo of the Day: Bike to the Beat

At lunchtime the other day, as I crossed the courtyard near my building at Rockefeller Center in New York for a quick bite to eat, I came across this crowd of exercise fans on stationary bicycles. I did not get the name of the organization, but, from the kind of propulsive dance music found in discos blaring up to the nearby skyscrapers, it was easy to recall the urging of the peppy woman leading them: “Bike to the beat!”

As you can see from this photo I took, several participants had already worked up quite a sweat after just one song. Remember as you take this in that this event occurred in the middle of the week, before temperatures began to climb and humidity enveloped the New York area. Had this promotion been held even today, I’m sure more participants would have been hanging over their handle bars.

Quote of the Day (John Mortimer, on Exercise for a British Lawyer)

“My customary exercise consists of a short stroll from the Temple tube to Equity Court, and rising to object to impertinent questions put by prosecuting counsel.”— John Mortimer, Rumpole a la Carte (1990)

The image accompanying this post shows Leo McKern, in perhaps his best-remembered role, as the title character in the British series Rumpole of the Bailey.

Quote of the Day (Comic Robin McCauley, on Exercise and Relaxation)

“Do people who say ‘Exercise helps me relax’ know about not exercising?” — Stand-up comedian Robin McCauley, May 24, 2013 tweet

TV Quote of the Day (Ellen DeGeneres, on ‘Buns of Steel’)

"You know, I don't think I really need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon."—Ellen DeGeneres, as the title character in the ABC sitcom Ellen, quoted in Leigh Behrens, “Shortcuts,” Chicago Tribune, January 22, 1995

Quote of the Day (Peter O’Toole, on His Exercise Regimen)

“I've often said that the only exercise I take is following the coffins of friends who took exercise.”—Actor Peter O’Toole, in an interview with Bob Strauss of the Los Angeles Daily News, reprinted in “His Favorite Year: Peter O'Toole on Vanity, Romance and the Oscars,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 9, 2007