Michael Ian Black Quotes

If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

I really think a good host is just a connector. I'm more traffic cop than star. My job is to get people on and off the program, and hopefully keep the audience entertained.

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC.

I would do the morning show and then just walk over to the network side of the building here at ABC in New York and sit down and start it up again and introduce the 10 contestants, and then introduce the 10 - the fastest finger question, and pick one of them, put them in the seat before you finally got to asking them the questions.

I've got a chance to host a show called 'Redneck Island' on CMT. I love doing that show.

I'd love to host a reality show now and not be a contestant in it. I want to take a show forward.

I never considered game show host as a career, but it's fun because I get to inject some of my comedy into it.

I get small screen offers all the time, specially for hosting shows.

Hosting a game show is quite interactive and non-fictional shows are a part of entertainment.

I have hosted many shows in the past. Anchoring is something I really enjoy; hence, when I was offered to host the show 'Super Dancer,' I was excited to take it up.

I'm talking as a professional impresario. I'm not judging anybody at all.

I've hosted the Soul Train awards, the American Music Awards... and I had my own talk show. So if I can't host by now, what the hell can I do?

I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

If I end up hosting 'Joker's Wild,' please shoot me.

There can always be an 'Idol' without anybody. I believe that Seacrest is probably the best host in the business.

One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week. It involves a lot of hard work, as one has to fight for ratings every week. But I have always got love from the audiences, be it during 'The Great Laughter Challenge' or 'Comedy Circus.'

Someday I would really love to do a talk show. That's something I've always been interested in. I like to talk, and I love to help people.

As an announcer, 'The Price Is Right' is the mother of all shows not only because of its legacy, but because it is by far the most demanding game show.

I don't know why ESPN asked me to host the ESPYs. I think that they realize we, over at WWE, can engage a live audience. We certainly have an enormous following.

Celador always ask me to do their shows, and I turned down 'Millionaire.' I couldn't have done it as well as Chris Tarrant, or at least I couldn't have done it any better.

When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'

I never in my life saw myself as a game show host. I don't want to be a traffic cop.

The world that I would want to get into would be acting. In the beginning, I would do stuff as myself if I had the opportunity to host events - host, like, a talk show. Something like that, I think, would be super amazing.

I love doing talk shows.