As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

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All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on...

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on...

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless...

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is...

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is...

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger...

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary...

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.......

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.......

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in...

We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in...

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.

When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse.