Ilana Glazer Quotes

There are obviously legal restrictions on what you can do on TV in the States, as there are everywhere.

Obviously, there's a million things we're allowed to say on late-night cable that you're not allowed to say on a prime time broadcast.

In the United States, viewers don't get to see a lot of things we can show in other countries. We didn't get to show our naked Twister game from Wild On Jamaica, but we definitely filmed it.

When I first started, you couldn't mention divorce or death. You couldn't show smelly socks. You couldn't show a snake. They took a skunk out of my strip one time.

There are things I'm doing with 'The After' that would've never flown on 'The X-Files' and on network television, so it's more permissive. That's not to say that you want to abuse that. I think that a show like 'The X-Files' actually worked better as a network show with the restraints put on it, the censorship that was applied.

David Steinberg was the reason the Smothers Brothers got cancelled.

In terms of language, yeah we get bleeped and blurred and things, but in terms of content, I would probably say we're getting away with more here than we could get away with in Britain. And that surprised us so much!

The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

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

Television should be regulated like a toaster.

TV isn't a wide medium when it comes to boldness on the small screen because of the audience. It reaches out to the audience but keeping the traditions intact.

You can't cuss on TV. It does hurt your brand if you do stuff like that. That's not what blue chip sponsors are looking for.

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

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

On network, you have limitations for how raunchy it can get and how violent it can get.

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

The networks are different so they have a different approach. Obviously, with The Shield - that was on FX so they had a little bit more leeway as far as the dialogue was concerned and even the content and what they showed the viewers, which is a great thing. But we will push it to the limit as far as FOX will let us go; that's for damn sure.

This is nothin for the radio... but they'll still play it though

I find it very difficult to live through the censorship of profanity on television.

Obviously there are different standards and practices that are allowed on cable versus network. You just have to embrace what your network is going to allow.

I had some jokes that were dirty. And some of it is when I started making appearances on Conan and Letterman back in the late '90s, I think. You had to remove the curse words, or you couldn't do some of the more explicit jokes.

A little sex on TV never hurt anyone...unless you fall off!

You could do much more in movies than you could on TV, and even movies were heavily censored. But in television, the areas of timorousness were fairly laid out. Race relations. Sex. Politics. There was a whole conglomeration of taboo themes. And even to date, though television has become a much freer medium, it's still far less free, far less creatively untrammeled than are the movies. They're infinitely more adult in that respect.

Hilarious, dude. You should, like, have your own show.

I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.