Eve Arden Quotes

My admiration for 'Mary Tyler Moore' is very, very big because they went out on top.

'I Love Lucy,' the first classic, really belonged more to the Wacky Woman genre than the domestic sitcom; 'My Little Margie' and 'I Married Joan' were among the shrill, coarse imitations.

I hadn't actually watched 'Entourage.' But I do understand that if you know and love that show, Jeremy Piven is about as good as it gets.

I don't feel guilty about it, but I love me some 'Modern Family.'

The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you'll find that there's mostly working-class people.

I wish I'd done a tenth year of the 'Roseanne' show.

I think 'Eastbound & Down' is one of the great television shows, ever.

'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.

Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'

'Parks and Rec' is definitely a mainstream show - the group that watches it on TV on Thursday night is small, but the audience that watches it on things like Hulu, Netflix, and Tivo is enormous.

'30 Rock' is one of the best things on TV, I think.

Ninety-nine percent of television shows, I've never seen.

I love Sherri Shepherd as Lula.

I'm trying to make pop records for the middle-class, lower-middle-class - pop for the 99 percent.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

I was pretty obsessed with 'Saturday Night Live.'

A lot of people make hay about 'American Idol's ratings and 'Empire.'

The Simpsons are going to Delaware!

Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.

Next up [new TV stars] was [Dean] Martin and [Jerry] Lewis on 'The Colgate Comedy Hour.'

Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.

"Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying.

Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy.