Peter Tork Quotes

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 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.

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

I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.

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

My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'

The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.

Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.

I think the sitcom is the format for television. It's the essential form, and it represents more of the canon of TV, which is why I latched onto it.

I loved TV, and I watched anything with music - 'Hee Haw,' 'Happy Days,' anything like that. So I loved the Monkees.

I think 'The Big Bang Theory' is one of the greatest written TV shows of all time.

I love One Direction. I like Eminem.

We're really, like, big fans of Destiny's Child.

My two most fervent interests are pop music and traditional Judaism. Hell of a pair of fervent interests.

I'm a really big Rihanna fan, and I think she's such an incredible artist.

I'm a massive fan of Troye Sivan, Ariana Grande, and Justin Timberlake.

I wrote on the fourth season of 'Arrested Development.'

Well, I had always been a fan of 'The Office' and thought the mockumentary style of the show was hilarious. So with 'Parks' taking the same approach, it drew me in right away.

Singles - we hated it, going on 'Top Of The Pops' and all that rubbish.

I loved Shaggy and Eminem.

I'd like to interview Rita Ora - I think she's really cool.

Girls Generation, I love their Teddy Riley-produced track 'The Boys.'

I don't know if people know this about me, but I'm into Billy Joel. I'm a huge fan of his and always have been. He's just a quintessential songwriter of our time. Talk about a storied career - so many classic songs and great albums.

My favorite Prince album is 'Sign o' the Times.'

Little Mix are hilarious.