“I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.” ShowsKidsUsedWatchesTelevisionTvsMadAgentsAuditions Author:Zosia Mamet
“Jerry Lewis played on the very first season of Mad About You, and he played basically himself, but he was called some other name. He said he's never done it; he'd never done a half-hour of [sitcom] television. This was 1992 or '93. And I said, "Well how is that?" And he goes, "Nobody ever asked me." It's like the pretty girl at the dance; everybody's too afraid to ask.” FirstsWellsSaidDoneGirlAsksNamesHoursHalfTelevisionSeasonsMadSitcomJerryHalf HoursPretty Girl Author:Paul Reiser
“You know daytime television? You know what it's supposed to be for? It's to keep unemployed people happy. It's supposed to stop them running to the social security demanding mad luxuries like cookers and windows.” PeopleKnowsRunningSocialSecurityTelevisionWindowMadLuxurySupposed To BeSocial SecurityUnemployedDaytimeCookers Author:Victoria Wood
“I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.” WorldKidsAgeGoneSawsTelevisionMadNephewNieceMy NieceNiece And Nephew Author:Jack Nicholson
“We grew up creating this whole world view for ourselves because it's not there in the culture. What am I? And I have to build this world view in the absence of books, radio and television, anything, even conversation, Mom or Dad or brother or sister or friends. I have to build a world view of who I am or I go stark, raving mad. Every transsexual in the past has had to do this.” WorldBookWholePastCultureViewsThis WorldTelevisionBrotherGrewMomDadConversationCreatingGrew UpMadRadioAbsenceWhole WorldWho I AmStarksWorld ViewTranssexuals Author:Kate Bornstein
“The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.” WorldTelevisionMadnessMadRateMaryTyphoid Author:Edward Robb Ellis