“Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New Zealand idiot.” LooksGuyKnownComedyNewsMusicalIdiotGood NewsNew Zealand Author:Bret McKenzie
“I treat Twitter like a news feed. I follow you guys, I follow every news organization - left, right, center, and everything in between - and it's like a ticker on my phone. For me it's that you have to wade through the people who wish you were dead - and I have to respect their opinions - but it helps me stay on top of the news.” PeopleHelpingGuyLeftWishOpinionNewsOrganizationTreatsPhonesHelp MeWish YouWade Author:Willie Geist
“When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff.” NeedsWarKidsFilmGuyFeltStuffBitsParentProtectSixNewsClockVietnamVietnam War Author:Johnny Depp
“The not-visibly-insane Democrats all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume. In case you missed this profile in Democrat machismo, the Democratic presidential candidates are refusing to participate in a debate hosted by Fox News Channel because the hosts are "biased." But they'll face down Mahmoud Ahmadinejad! At this, even Hillary Clinton was thinking, "Come on, guys - let's grow a pair."” ThinkingFacesGuyGrowsCasesNewsClaimsDemocraticClintonDemocratDebateTerroristInsanePresidentialCandidatesPairsRoughHostFoxesProfileBiasedFox NewsPresidential CandidateBritsMachismoHumeNews Channels Author:Ann Coulter
“If y'all see me in the news, and I make the news for something that I ain't got no business making it for, don't bash me. Say it was a young guy living.” IfsYoungGuyNewsBashYoung Guys Author:Clinton Portis
“Pope Francis announced that next year he is coming to the United States, or as Fox News is reporting it, 'Obama lets in yet another guy from South America.'” YearsStatesAmericaGuyNextUnitedUnited StatesNewsSouthPopeFoxesNext YearOther GuysFox NewsSouth America Author:Conan O'Brien
“You're either a rationalist, or you're not. And the good news is a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say they are rationalists, and have figured out that Santa Claus and Jesus are really the same guy. Now, 20% is hardly a majority. But it's a bigger minority than blacks, jews, homosexuals, NRA members, teachers, or seniors... and it's certainly enough to stop being shy about expressing the opinion that we're not the crazy ones!” EnoughGuyFoundJesusOpinionTeacherCrazyMembersNewsAdultsBiggerMajorityJewMinoritiesShySeniorHomosexualGood NewsPollsSantaSanta ClausNraBeing Shy Author:Bill Maher
“Big news from last night's Republican debate, you guys. It turns out George Bush was actually the smart Texas governor.” BigsLastsNightGuyTurnsRepublicanNewsSmartDebateTexasGovernorsLast NightBig News Author:Jimmy Fallon
“First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.” WorldFirstsGuyStuffClassNewsBrandsGentlemanWorld ClassLadies And GentlemenNot Pretty Author:Halle Berry
“I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and the only place to be is right next to the camera in costume ready to go in order to get it. The years, and more specifically probably the four months prior to beginning shooting, is where the big preparation is that the director does because I knew we were going to get on the set. And the good news is, if you're the boss, if it ain't good, you don't use it. You just cut it out.” IfsYearsDoeMadeUseBigsGuyOrderNextNumbersFourCuttingReadyMonthsDirectorsNewsCamerasPreparationShootingBossCostumesGood NewsCastaway Author:Tom Hanks
“The Obama administration asked General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, and he agreed. This is good news for Obama; the last time he tried to get someone to quit, it took months -- and even then, he had to promise her a job as secretary of state. ... According to the government, Rick Wagoner was forced to resign because of poor performance. That's embarrassing -- run an organization that loses billions of dollars and then get fired by a guy who heads up an organization that loses trillions of dollars.” StatesGovernmentRunningJobsLastsGuyLosesPoorStepsMonthsPromiseNewsPerformancesOrganizationDown AndDollarsBillionsQuittingAdministrationSecretaryLast TimeCeoGood NewsEmbarrassingMotorHeads UpGeneral MotorsPoor Performance Author:Jay Leno
“You wouldn't want to see a movie where the bad guys triumph over the good guys all the time. You'd get bummed out, and you'd just stay at home and watch the news.” WantHomeGuyWatchesNewsTriumphBad GuysGood GuyStay At HomeBummed Out Author:Bruce Willis
“I always wanted to be a comedian, even when I was a little kid. I had a funny father who was in the news business, by the way. He was a radio news guy. So the news was always in my house, and funny was always in my house. It was sort of just baked into the DNA that I would do this for a living, but I can remember being less than 10 years old and dreaming about being a comedian.” WayYearsLittlesI CanDreamKidsWantedRememberGuyFatherHouseNewsRadioComedianDnaLittle KidFunny FatherRadio News Author:Bill Maher
“I saw a door that said exit only. So I entered through it and went up to the guy working there and said "I have good news. You have severely underestimated that door over there. By like a hundred percent."” SaidHumorFunnyGuySawsDoorsNewsPercentHundredGood NewsExitUnderestimated Author:Demetri Martin
“People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.” PeopleYearsWellsLooksSaidStoriesGuyFourMediaAmountNewsCaughtPlusFour YearsThis GuyCorrectionsNews Media Author:Jayson Blair
“I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.” KindGuyNewsConservative Author:Bob Edwards
“The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is about the choices these guys are faced with. In that way, I think this is a more personal story about their friendship, about the reaction that they have when they're essentially faced with death, to a certain degree.” ThinkingWayWarStoriesFilmGuyCertainChoicesConversationDegreesNewsRadioBackgroundsReactionsPersonal StoriesRadio News Author:Elijah Wood
“I don't think people talk to me because I'm such a good, charming, good-looking guy. I don't - whether that's true or not. I think they do it because I work for a major news organization, and they think that it can probably be helpful to them and their business interests or their personal interest and what have you.” PeopleThinkingGuyInterestMajorsNewsOrganizationHelpfulCharmingLooking GoodTalk To MePersonal InterestGood Looking Guys Author:Mark Leibovich
“I think scandal probably attracted more American attention to Formula 1 than anything else in American news in decades. And that`s because it was a sex scandal, a particularly lurid sex scandal involving this guy Max Mosley.” ThinkingGuySexAttentionNewsDecadesFormulasThis GuyScandalMaxInvolvingFormula 1 Author:Rachel Maddow
“An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.” MenHeartGuyGivenRocksFineNewsSavedOperationsThrowingPalestinianIsraeliBad NewsTransplantsHeart TransplantThrowing Rocks Author:Jay Leno
“Cable news is 24 hours long so you have to fill it up with something. No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman. It's a joke. Clearly he is a classic, old school bad guy. He's bad not because he works for an oil company but because he's evil. No, it's not a communist movie in any way.” WayLongCharacterSchoolGuyEvilHoursCompanyNewsJokesCapitalismOilClassicCommunistBad GuysCablesOld SchoolAllegoryOil CompaniesMuppetCable News Author:James Bobin
“The president receives an inspector general's report that the Office of Personnel Management could be hacked into; they had antiquated firewalls; 23 million files have been - are in the hands of the Chinese allegedly, including, by the way, members of the press, it turns out, last week. Maybe that's the only part that's good news, so that you guys can get a feel for what it's like now to see this type of attack.” WayFeelsHas BeensHandsLastsGuyTurnsPresidentMillionsWeekTypeMembersOfficeNewsManagementPressesIncludingChineseReportsGood NewsFilesPersonnelHackedInspectors Author:Jeb Bush
“I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.” PeopleThinkingYearsWould BeSchoolGuySawsFiguresStudentsAuthorityNewsGunMy FriendsKillingScaredEveningProtestCopSixteenFiringWashington DcAuthority FiguresSixteen Year Olds Author:Gus Van Sant
“I got a parking ticket one time in L.A. and I was furious about it. I was trying to prove a point to the guy who gave it to me and I put it in my mouth and chewed it up. And the guy just kept watching me, like, "Yeah?" He didn't think I was going to finish the job. So then I swallowed it. The good news is that paper is not a big deal if you eat it.You'd be full, but you could eat the phone book. So that was the weirdest thing: a parking ticket.” IfsThinkingTryingBookBigsJobsGuyDealsProvePaperNewsMouthsYeahPhonesOne TimeTicketsGood NewsBig DealFuriousParking Author:Rob Huebel
“I just watched the news. Seeing crazy people doing crazy stuff to other people and pretending that they're the good guys really helped.” PeopleGuyStuffSeeingCrazyNewsPretendingGood GuyCrazy People Author:Casper Crump
“My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.” KnowsKidsGuyFatherNewsTablesRadioDinnerDnaDinner TableRadio News Author:Bill Maher
“There was no news in the Dan Rather piece. They didn't say [to Bush]: "We found a piece of paper that was overlooked in the 300,000 pieces of paper that were covered in the Iran-Contra hearings, and we have a piece of news we'd like to ask you about." CBS decided to create a media event and cover it in its own fashion. This was unprecedented in American history. CBS cancelled two-thirds of the newscast... to get a guy and take him out.” TwoGuyAsksFoundPiecesMediaFashionEventsPaperNewsDecidedThirdsHearingIranCoveredAmerican HistoryUnprecedentedOverlookedIran Contra Author:Roger Ailes
“It is hard to imagine a choice more stark than the choice between Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, a clear establishment figure, and Stephen Bannon, a leader of the right-wing, the guy - Breitbart News Network, somebody who spent most of the time beating up on the Republican establishment.” HardGuyChoicesPartyLeaderClearImagineFiguresRepublicanNewsWingsEstablishmentRepublican PartyChairmanRight WingStarks Author:George Stephanopoulos
“Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.” ThinkingWantFeelsWholeHomeMightCareGuyGirlWaitingWomenArmsTruth IsNewsShirtsVacationFlashAngleSkinnyWrapsExoticElbowsCurlsCharlotteFlourPta Book:Handle with Care: A Novel Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.” IfsCountrySeemsGuyHouseWatchesNewsTragedyConnectedAirplaneBikeThat GuyKansasDriveway Book:A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“Because I went from the Daily Show where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show to Bruce Almighty where I played a news guy to Anchorman where I played a news guy, now I'm...yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits.” ShowsGuyNewsYeahSuitsFakeAlmightyDaily ShowAnchorman Author:Steve Carell
“First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.” FirstsGuySportsNewsCurseHockeyTanksVoodooSports Illustrated Author:Dean Lombardi