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

Quote by Larry Gelbart

Topics: Television Quotes

Most jokes state a bitter truth

Most jokes state a bitter truth

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as...

ABC Television Network: Your services, such as they are, will no longer be required as...

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]

There are two types of television: the first makes the intelligent more difficult to govern,...

There are two types of television: the first makes the intelligent more difficult to govern,...

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of...

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of...

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Television: A medium. So called because it's neither rare nor well done.

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television...

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television...

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those...

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those...

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture....

My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture....

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

We call them Twinkies. You've seen them on television acting the news, modeling and fracturing...

$We call them Twinkies. You've seen them on television acting the news, modeling and fracturing...$

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that...

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that...

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on...

I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on...

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined...

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined...