Subject: Entertainment » Television

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

You might be a redneck if… the Home Shopping operator recognizes your voice.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

You don't even know what they're selling until the very end: three rabbits are on a log, and one of them goes home and hangs himself – 'Buy a bike!'

(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright

In Russia we only had two TV channels: Channel One was propaganda, Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: “Turn back at once to Channel One.”

(1951 – ) Soviet-American comedian

People think I hate sex; I don’t; I just don’t like things that stop you seeing the television properly.

(1953 – 2016) British comedian, actress, singer & screenwriter

The prize on that show: another contestant.

(1963 – ) Canadian writer, actor & stand-up comedian

I saw a commercial on late night TV, it said,“Forget everything you know about slipcovers,” so I did, and it was a load off my mind; then the commercial tried to sell me slipcovers, and I didn’t know what the hell they were.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

(1867 – 1959) architect, interior designer, writer & educator

Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

I don't know what was wrong with my television last night, but I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station, and I actually bought a congressman.

(1951 – ) American comedian & writer

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host

You're flickin' around, all of a sudden – boom – you're watching a mole for an hour-and-a-half.

(1972 – ) stand-up comedian & actor

When will I learn? The answer to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle, they’re on TV!

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

You know you're working class when your TV is bigger than your bookcase.

English standup comedian

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist

Martha Stewart’s a convicted felon and they gave her another television show… what’s next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?

(1964 – ) American comedian & actor

Men don’t care what’s on TV… they only care what else is on TV.

(1954 – ) comedian & television actor

It was so beautiful today that I only watched four hours of “Law & Order” in my apartment.

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

A body at rest tends to watch television.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian