Quotes About Television

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

'30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

I joke that, 'Give us forty-two minutes, and we'll get your bad guy for you.'

Directing a television episode is no joke, and it's incredibly difficult and especially when you're acting in it as well.

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

I know for myself, every now and again on HBO, they'll show some of the young comedian specials from the '80s and early '90s, and it's just fascinating to watch those comedians - some of whom are people that are world-famous, like Chris Rock or Judd Apatow - to see the jokes that people had, but also, the way everything looked.

I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.

I'm probably going to get in trouble for this but 'American Dad' is one of my favourite shows. It gets very dark in places but the jokes are there.

'Friends' was great fun, but I was just there so they could make some funny jokes about England.

Wir wollten diese Finals unbedingt machen, wollten das Duell Detlef Schrempf gegen Michael Jordan ins Deutsche Fernsehen bringen. Das war unser Traum. Uns war doch völlig egal, ob das nach deutscher Zeit mitten in der Nacht war! Das interessierte uns nicht. Ganz schön egoistisch. Aber im Nachhinein zeigte sich, das ganze Schülerschaften von zwölf- bis achtzehnjährigen sich die Nächte um die Ohren schlugen, um diese Duelle zu sehen.

Like about ten times in each episode, which means that if you were watching it on Cartoon Network, he might say it like fifty times before breakfast.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

TV -- chewing gum for the eyes.

Monty Python: A documentary series on everyday life in Great Britain.

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Television is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done.

Televisio is a vehicle that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.

Bill Moyers' book and public television series, Healing and the Mind, was another milestone along the road to a better public understanding of this concept.

In a young child's mind, parents probably condone what's on the television, just like they choose what's in the refrigerator or on the stove. That's why we who make television for children must be especially careful.

TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

I was on an airplane last year when a talk show began playing on the TVs. I decided to start narrating for the people, which is a really great game if you're ever bored enough. I realized a time will probably come when television will watch us if we're watching it, if that hasn't already happened, figuratively or literally. It sounded like some sort of pseudo-Big Brother nightmare, so I wrote it down.