There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.
TV has been my goal since before I started YouTube.
People ultimately get what they deserve on TV. What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.
You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.
There are many films and TV shows I make where people find themselves in fantastical situations; as often as possible their reactions to it are very normal.
I am like a TV antenna. I catch everything that is in the air, and then I do it my way.
Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
I went onto reality TV as a business decision.
Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties.
I do not know of a single TV meteorologist who buys into the man-made global warming hype. I know there must be a few out there, but I can't find them.
I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.
Every company is its own TV station, magazine, and newspaper.
You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished. '
I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.
The funny thing is that I had never actually watched TV.
I admire the Shabbat tradition, and no matter which faith you are of, there is nothing more wonderful than dedicating a certain day to spend time with your family and loved ones, absent of TV, phone, and other interruptions.
In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.
Everybody says, TV is great, the writer has so much power. I'm still trying to convince myself that's true. When do the writers ever have power? Ever? They don't. Even in the book industry.
You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.
The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.