Quotes About Television

I hope and assume that every good comedy writer, no matter the age, has a moment where they discover how great Cheers is.

When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.

I'd actually rather have a talk show in Australia than even America; I hope I do end up with a talk show.

I do write a lot of children's songs, and I'm going to do a children's television show, which also means I'll be doing a lot of albums. So I do hope my future will hold a lot of things for children.

If you liked this broadcast, we hope you'll watch it again tomorrow night and maybe tell your neighbors about it.

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

I have to stop crying when I watch "The View". It's not because of the topics at hand, I just feel sorry for that couch.

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

Does anyone find it ironic how a program aimed at old people is called 'Countdown'?

I can't watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.

My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics.

Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.

Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950's. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

I can say that. I have a television show.

Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!

It does no good to bark at the television, I said. I've tried it too. So he stopped.

And what if that news anchor is creepy? He's too smooth, and he has that hairpiece.

'Why are you yelling at the television when you know they cannot hear you?' 'You wouldn't understand, ' said Asher, his gaze locked on the screen. 'It's a human thing.'

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

Television deprives children of their imaginations.

Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.