Quotes About Commentary

I like to think that I'm one of the few people in public life who write their own material. I write every word. And I really enjoy writing - especially my political commentary.

Pundits will be pundits. We don't think too much of the punditry.

I tend not to listen to pundits.

I love, for example, 'Full Frontal with Sam Bee.' I just love her show.

I like Fox, but I also like Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon.

I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.

I am usually frivolous and fun, but sometimes I can be dead serious in my comments.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing.

For a man who purports to have learned of media ethics only this month, Mr. Williams has spent an undue amount of time appearing as a media ethicist on both CNN and the cable news networks of NBC.

I'm a postmodern commentator, and so, in a cheeky parallel to James Joyce or James Kelman, I get to places, verbally, that are a little unusual - when I talk about Jocky Wilson and end up sounding like a Jackson Pollock of the commentary box.

Cricket had John Arlott, Wimbledon had Dan Maskell, we had Ted Lowe. He was great.

I love winding up Geoffrey Boycott.

There's so many shows, whether it's 'Last Week Tonight' or 'The Daily Show' or 'Full Frontal' or 'Late Night With Seth Meyers,' that are really doing great stuff talking about what's going on in the world and what's going on with the president, and those stories that everyone winds up talking about, whether on social media or in their jobs.

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

I definitely have fun commenting on the real world and interpreting through the 'Dear White People' lens.

On 'The Simpsons,' I will say that we definitely like to comment on what's going on in the world, and we try to be funny. If we can figure out a way of being funny about it, then we've gone part of the way of accomplishing our task.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

At the ten-minute halftime, "with the figures standing 11 for Yale and 5 for Princeton, Mr. Clemens was one of the most eager of the mathematicians figuring how Princeton might yet pull the game out of the fire." Princeton didn't, but the reporter recorded the author's color commentary on the first pigskin game he'd ever seen. "I should think they'd break every bone they ever had!

You know who's one of the great beauties of the world—according to everybody—and I helped create her? Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She's six feet tall, she's got the best body." (Ivanka was twenty-one at the time.)

It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

Man is a creature who has something to say about everything under the sun.

History is concerned primarily with human phenomena, not with natural; and history is doubly human because, as an idea, it is man's creation, challenging him to transcend the limits of information about himself and to discover what he is by finding meaning in what he has done. In short, it is man's commentary on man.

I didn't want to get into acting just to play bystanders. I feel a bystander enough in my own life. And I do think that theatre can contribute to a certain analysis and commentary on our own world.

We had learned from him and from experience that stories that combine science fiction with philosophy with optimism, with a comment on social issues and an exploration of human values, are the stories that work for Star Trek.