Quotes About Television

Someone once accused me of trying to turn the sitcom into an art form, and I really believe that's what I was trying to do.

Flashback episodes are a tried-and-true sitcom device, but they always work!

I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success.

I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.

What I love most is television, and I would love to work on a sitcom.

I was genuinely shocked to even be in the frame for a sitcom role on British TV.

I did a sitcom, and I really enjoyed looking for different ways to be funny - lifting that off of the page and just really expanding on it in a way that with procedural and drama, you can't do as much.

I've seen episodes of 'Friends' which are as funny as any sitcom I've ever seen.

I love working in television and in comedy, so whenever there's an opportunity to work on a TV sitcom, I'm like, 'Yes please!'

Every comic is taught that you're supposed to have a great seven-minute set and then get a sitcom. And I don't want to get the sitcom.

The family sitcom has been around forever, since the advent of television. I don't need to reinvent it. But if you take something and you do it in a way that you haven't necessarily seen before, that's right where I live.

I've been waiting for the right opportunity to have a sitcom because I've been on TV like 10 times, but it was all reality shows, semi-acting like that.

Your average sitcom writer is a very intellectual person.

I'm not really that political and I love the idea of a sitcom. But a lot of people want me to become the next Jon Stewart.

I'm enjoying Channel Four's '10 O'Clock Live.' I like the idea of putting together a dream team and seeing what happens. I also like 'Not Going Out,' the sitcom starring Lee Mack. It's a sitcom packed with jokes. Not many of them as frowned upon as lacking kudos.

I'll get to make a lot of money and do some bad sitcoms.

Sitcoms are making a comeback, but you've got to have a little quirkiness in there now.

I loved doing sitcoms.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

Cable is a great medium. It's something I respond to. I'm not doing sitcoms. People don't find me funny. That's just the way it is.

'Fresh Off the Boat' will be syndicated. This show and these characters will live forever in the pantheon of classic family sitcoms.

I watch sitcoms like Seinfeld, and here's a newsflash, but what a great show.