Bill Engvall Quotes

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.'

And we do talk a lot about my past and my impression of things and how it relates to what we're doing now. The Brady Bunch, in its heyday, was really the genesis of when TV started to become the force that it is today.

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

I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'

People forget that in the early '70s, Saturday was the most-watched night of television of the week. It was where you found 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and 'All in the Family.'

I think there's going to be many special episodes of 'Blackish.'

I do think there was an age of television back in the '90s that was a little bit more wholesome.

I was raised watching sitcoms, and I love long-form comedy.

I'm a huge fan of stuff like 'Planet Earth' and the American sitcom 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

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 very comfortable having a steady job on a hit show, and who knew if 'The Jeffersons' would catch on?

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

In our first season we had a 22 rating. Today Seinfeld, a hit show, gets a 15. Lost in Space actually had a bigger audience than Star Trek got at that time.

I loved doing sitcoms.

Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality.

I was so sad that 'Best Friends Forever' got cancelled. I thought it was a great show and NBC didn't give it a chance. I'm a big fan of the NBC comedies.

What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.

I watch sitcoms like Seinfeld, and here's a newsflash, but what a great show.

I love the NBC comedies. I DVR 'Parks and Recreation,' 'Community,' 'The Office,' '30 Rock.' I love most of the HBO shows. I love 'Archer.' 'Archer's a great show. I'm big on Netflix; I've seen every episode of 'Freaks and Geeks.' We need more shows like that.

'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 came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

I do watch some TV. I like the History Channel and National Geographic, and old shows on TV Land like 'Sanford and Son,' 'The Jeffersons,' and 'Benson.'

Shows like 'All in the Family' and now 'Mom' - there's a tradition of tackling real issues.

I'm always watching old episodes of 'The Golden Girls' or 'The Simpsons.'