Rich Eisen Quotes

When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.

There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Certainly the O.J. Simpson case was a turning point in my career.

Sometimes things can be a guilty pleasure, but with 'Idol,' everyone talks about it like it's a real thing; they argue over who's gonna win... There's no laughing at it.

I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an impact the show had not just in entertainment but in life. I knew who Chekhov was and I knew who Kirk and Spock were, although I probably had never seen the show.

Everyone is doing forensics.

I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.

We're kind of in a voyeuristic world. We have TV shows that are all about watching people do weird things in houses. People are obsessed with that. There's live coverage of it.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

The fact that the public are mesmerised by Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and all these miserable people makes me laugh because those celebrities are more miserable than the people reading about them for escapism.

To see how YouTube has become part of pop culture, it's been just amazing.

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with.

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.

That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

The Pulpit, the Press, and the Novel—these undisputedly are the great molders of public opinion and public morals to-day.

In the fact that 'Vogue' is someone that can help guide enormous audiences through this fascinating world, I would like to think we are as influential and actually are now reaching so many more people than we ever dreamt of back in the Fifties or the Sixties.

Now we've gotten accustomed to reality shows where the goal is to see people acting foolish.