Karen Kilgariff Quotes

I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

I like transformative TV.

There are only about three really, really good sitcoms on the air.

I'm completely done with reality TV.

'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.

I watch the comedy shows like 'Married With Children,' 'Friends,' 'Family Guy,' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'

We did 'Friends Like These' on BBC and 'Slap Bang' on ITV which didn't work as well.

I'm on my own when I say this, but I'm one of the few people that think that 'Everybody Loves Raymond' is better than 'Seinfeld.'

I've written for the last 15 years on TV shows, but now I'm doing the new Charlie Sheen program, 'Anger Management.'

But reality television is here to stay.

People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.

Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

I absolutely love '30 Rock' and 'The Office,' but I don't know how many 13-year-olds are watching that stuff.

We need more drama on Australian TV. We've actually dropped the ball on that.

You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home.

I was raised on 'Get Smart' and 'All in the Family' and 'M.A.S.H.,' and certainly when 'Cheers' came along, that was a big one.

Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

I'm a regular part of the TV audience world, and I know that I like shows that I would watch. And this is a series that I definitely would watch. And some episodes are better than others.

I'm obsessed with trash TV. I love horrible TV. shows. It's the white trash in me, you know?

Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.

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

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

I am the luckiest old broad on two feet if the truth were known. It's - but it all goes back to 'Mary Tyler Moore,' 'Golden Girls,' all those - actors love to take the credit. We couldn't do it without the writers.