Subject: Entertainment » Television (Page 3)

Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.

(1913 – 1994) 37th U.S. president

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

(1928 – 2009) American television writer, playwright, screenwriter & author

I bought a portable cable TV.

comedian

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

(1939 – ) British journalist, comedian, writer & media personality

Isn't it possible for them to get a real fascist instead of this guy who plays one on TV?

(1927 – ) Canadian-born American comedian & actor

The program you've been looking forward to all week will be preempted.

I know what the public want because I am one of them.

(1906 – 1998) Russian-born English film producer & media mogul

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience

American author

A body at rest tends to watch television.

Entertainment is a thing of the past, today we’ve got television.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

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

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

Argentina invaded the Falklands because they had ESPN and the Argentines wanted to get the late scores.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

TV: a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville; we call it a medium, because nothing's well done.

(Aiskowitz) (1899 – 1982) humorist

When they list the great things of the 20th Century, they’ll say, penicillin, Sophia Loren, jet travel and ESPN.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

I think TV is very educational; every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

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

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art; now we have something to look down on.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer