When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.
The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.
You have to be a bit mad and conceited to go on television.
I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.
Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.
Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.
Conspiracies are a perennial favorite for television producers because there is always a receptive audience.
I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.
Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch on television?
It's still a trip for me to see somebody that I've only seen on television or in a movie. When they are there in real life, it's very different. When we played Detroit, Kevin Costner played before us.
I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.
It's easy to go on television and say horrible things about somebody. And it's cowardly.
After years of begging, I got my parents to get me a little Craig tape recorder, a reel to reel. Then I started recording voices, or recording Jonathan Winters off television and stuff like that.
If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
