Quotes About Television

'Political Animals' was before its time: a little darker, a little edgier. The audience wasn't ready for it.

I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.

I might play darts on TV now but really I've not changed.

There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.

'Blind Date' was my lifeline. It was 90 minutes when I could forget about everything, forget about the world.

I was a huge 'Blind Date' fan, though, when I was younger; that was on when I was in high school.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

My daughter, when she was younger, was crazy about 'The X-Files,' so I'd watch that with her.

David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

Larry David just makes me laugh.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

Everybody said, 'You hit it so big when you were on 'Ally McBeal.' ' I didn't do anything for a year after 'Ally McBeal,' and I had to write David Kelley to get myself back on 'Ally' a second time because I thought the character should be on again.

I've always loved David Letterman. There was an irreverence to his show that I remember, especially in 'Late Night' - it always seemed so fresh.

David Hasselhoff is awesome.

When David Goyer comes to the small screen, what he's actually doing is making the small screen bigger.

They didn't let us see daylight on 'Community.'

I don't know enough about daytime, I think, to say anything.

I've wanted to be in daytime television for a long time, because that's where you can convey a message.

I love daytime television.

I meet people who are so sniffy about daytime TV.

A show can be completely dead before you even get on the air. I've been privy to a couple of those.

I was 20 years old and I said, 'Okay, if I can't get on TV by 25 then I'll consider another career.' You have to give yourself these arbitrary deadlines just to keep yourself focused and on track.