Quotes About Entertainment

Seinfeld was the most popular, most transformative live-action show on television. It altered the language and shifted comedic sensibilities, and almost every random episode was witnessed by more people than the 2019 finale of Game of Thrones.

The Three Little Pigs" is not the story that is fucking people up. Stories like Say Anything are fucking people up. We don't need to worry about people unconsciously "absorbing" archaic secret messages when they're six years old; we need to worry about all the entertaining messages people are consciously accepting when they're twenty-six. They're the ones that get us, because they're the ones we try to turn into life.

As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didn't own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you don't own a TV simply means you're poor (or maybe depressed). In one ten-year span, high-end television usurped the cultural positions of film, rock, and literary fiction.

Anything experienced through the screen of a television becomes a TV show.

Both lyrically and sonically, glam metal is the sensible accompaniment for removing one's pants for money.

A person native to the twenty-first century can't really reconcile why anyone would pay $13.25 for twelve fixed songs that could only be played on specific high-end electronics serving no other function; the majority of all recorded music can now be instantly accessed anywhere for less than $10 a month.

There's even an 1892 novel called Golf in the Year 2000 that (somewhat incredibly) predicts the advent of televised sports.

The Brady Bunch Movie, released in February of 1995

It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety; TV confuses people.

Roughly 5.3 million people watched the first episode of The Walking Dead on AMC, a stunning 83 percent more than the 2.9 million who watched the season four premiere of Mad Men. This means there are at least 2.4 million cable-ready Americans who would prefer watching Christina Hendricks if she were an animated corpse.

If you did not really care, any experience could be entertaining.

American football] fanbase resemble that of contemporary boxing: rich people watching poor people play a game they would never play themselves.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

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.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. — Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger Than Fiction

Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.

No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted.

The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.

Branch Bacardi, star of The Da Vinci Load, To Drill a Mockingbird, The Postman Always Cums Twice, Chitty Chitty Gang Bang, The Twilight Bone, A Tale of Two Titties...