“The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.” PeopleFeelsStillsMillionsLaughingTelevisionJokesLonelyRemarkablePermitMiscellaneousFeeling Lonely Author:T. S. Eliot
“I really thought that I'd be doing Shakespeare, honest to God. I did not foresee the whole action television thing. That was God's joke.” WholeActionHonestTelevisionJokes Author:Nick Offerman
“I joke that I learned the essentials of storytelling from Hanna-Barbera, but I pretty much did. That kind of television is what enamored me as a kid, and that's what really got me hooked. You could say that's where it all began.” KindKidsTelevisionEssentialsJokesStorytellingHookedEnamored Author:Kurt Sutter
“I'm not sure I'd classify any topics as off-limits, but I don't look for new territories to offend. There's my joke about when my roommate beat cancer. People talk about cancer survivors like they're warriors, but from where I was sitting, she was just watching television and eating soup. Like, did she go to war? No. She kind of just sat around.” PeopleLooksKindWarTelevisionLimitsEatingBeatsJokesSittingCancerWarriorNot SureSatSurvivorTerritoryTopicsSoupCancer SurvivorRoommateWatching TelevisionNew TerritoryBeat Cancer Author:Amy Schumer
“Television's contribution to family life has been an equivocal one. For while it has, indeed, kept the members of the family from dispersing, it has not served to bring them together. By its domination of the time families spend together, it destroys the special quality that distinguishes one family from another, a quality that depends to a great extent on what a family does, what special rituals, games, recurrent jokes, familiar songs, and shared activities it accumulates.” DoeHas BeensTogetherSongGamesQualitySpecialTelevisionDependsActivityMembersJokesFamiliarContributionRitualDominationFamily Life Author:Marie Winn
“When I started in television, it was brand new. It was the miracle over in the corner of your room. Now the audience has seen every story line. People have heard every joke. They can predict the plot almost before a show starts. That's a hard, sophisticated audience to reach.” PeopleHardStoriesShowsLinesRoomsAudienceHeardTelevisionJokesMiracleCornersBrandsPlotSophisticatedBrand NewYour Room Author:Betty White
“But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.” IfsTelevisionMaterialsJokesPopsBangs Author:Tom Hanks
“As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case. After I gave up television, I found I could carry longer and longer stories or ideas in my head and put them together until I was carrying an entire short story. That's pretty much when I started writing.” IfsWritingChildrenIdeasStoriesTogetherTurnsFoundCasesTelevisionLuckyJokesCleanRadioNarrativeIf I CouldShort StoryWipeTurn-onGave UpSlate Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“People don't buy a new detergent because the manufacturer told a joke on television last night.” PeopleLastsNightTelevisionJokesLast Night Author:David Ogilvy
“Sitting around with funny people, banging out jokes and creating a television show. I have no hobbies, no outside interests. I'm fine with spending 14 hours a day putting a show together with tape and string.” PeopleShowsTogetherInterestHoursTelevisionFineCreatingJokesSittingSpendingStringsTapeHobbiesTelevision ShowsSitting AroundBangingFunny People Author:Jon Stewart
“You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.” WritingWatchesTelevisionJokesEveningPubsLunchtime Author:Eric Idle