Joel McHale Quotes

I shoot for 'Extra' three times a week, and that's great for Las Vegas, too. In addition to interviewing stars who are here for shows, parties and premieres, I'll also get peoples' reactions to different news items and topical gossip.

In the clubs, it's all out and you can say whatever as the character. TV has standards.

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

The Defense Department's plan to ban newspaper reporters from pool coverage of military operations is incredible. It reveals the administration to be out of touch with journalism, reality and the First Amendment.

When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, 'Don't say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone's going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.'

They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.

In a TV show, you are restricted to a lot of things. On television, you can't put the content you can put on web series and on the channels digitally.

I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.

Whether it's standing backstage with Jennifer Lopez in a dress that I know everyone will be talking about tomorrow... or being there when incredible news breaks, and instead where people sit in front of their TVs and look at it, I'm the person who goes there to bring you the story... It's amazing. It's unbelievable.

In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

I would like to expand my brand to include destinations in Vegas and also become an entertainment news correspondent.

The shutting out or boycotting of selected media cannot take place in Austria.

I'm not a reporter, so I get to say whatever - and then I'll get called into the office.

Creative freedom on television is very limited and I get bored very easily.

I've been reading everything from serious articles about track to Ryan Lochte's single life.

I think 'The Simpsons' is in the right time slot because it's not a show for kids. It's too vulgar. And 'Ren and Stimpy' is worse. We would never do anything like that.

ABC has a general policy that you can't show images of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.

If you look back at my six-year run in the WWE, I never cursed on TV once, never cursed once.

I noticed that mainstream western TV channels, especially CNN and ABC, show the same thing.

If people say Rani Mukerji recommended me, than I have no issue. If someone says that, then I enjoy that kind of news. I don't mind people writing such stories.

I don't read or watch anything that has to do with Lindsay Lohan.

You can't say whatever you want on network television.

I want to interview Alec Baldwin.

My whole life is reading tabloid magazines. It’s really sad, because that’s what my show is all about — what is going on with celebrities. So I have to know everything.

As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.