When you call a game, it's almost like you're doing a three-hour movie and the production of it all, living in the moment in real time, the replays, all the intricacies that go into putting a game in a broadcast. It's not just 100 percent football.
In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.
I know television. I've done it for a while, and I know that most of the time, you don't get second chances.
The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.
I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.
It's fun to deliver material on live TV because it's more off-the-cuff, but I like writing better. You really can measure the joke, think an extra second and nail the right reference.
Reporting makes you a better anchor and vice versa.
Nothing can really prepare you for live TV because you never know what's going to happen. I think, for me, what really helps is I know what I'm looking for when I'm shooting things, so it definitely helps to have that eye and know what camera you're looking at.
It's actually harder than it looks to be a good pundit on the air. You've got to have stuff to say.
Announcers don't do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it. You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.
I have no broadcasting training. No one's ever said to me, 'This is how you read a Teleprompter.' They just pointed to it and said, 'It's over there.'
My radio show, I'd show up, I'd read the data, and I would have sound bites and stuff like that.
Anchormen shouldn't cry.
I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'
I confess I had butterflies doing the first BBC 'Politics Live' of 2020. It felt like the first day back at school.
Live TV is unlike any other animal. I love the adrenaline rush. I love the unexpected.
Live TV is no joke.
Only those who've presented live television really know how difficult it is to make it look easy.
I don't think I would be very good on TV broadcasting games.
The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.
At one of the games I broadcast at Florida State a few years back, the mercury soared to 105 degrees, and you try attempting to look composed and professional, providing insight from the benches, while sweat pours into your eyes.
You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.
I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
I love doing live TV.
What really destroyed Tucker Carlson, respected magazine journalist, was TV. TV exposed him as glib, smug, and not nearly as clever as he thought he was.
