I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.
I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.
I love Leon and June and I love 'Gogglebox,' it's a brilliant show.
I would like to have a go at TV. I think, especially when you have kids, that you spend a lot of time watching telly, and you think, 'How come I'm not doing that?'
I'm a huge fan of 'The Watch,' and I've also been on a few times. It's Andy Greenwald and Chris Ryan's show on The Ringer. It's just a great podcast about television.
As a viewer of television if there's something I don't like or find offensive, I just don't watch it.
Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV.
I'm completely done with reality TV.
My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.
I don't ordinarily do television because I don't like some of the things projected on it.
Our mantra is that 90 percent of all television is bad, and ten percent has never been better. We make fun of that 90 percent.
I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
American television really is pathetic.
I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!
[We often] criticize the people on TV: 'He just can't act.' 'You call that singing?' ... We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.
English television from the Fifties to the Nineties was the least bad in the world, and now it's just as bad as it is anywhere.
I despair of reality television, but I've never met anyone who watches it. Or people say, 'I watch it, but I hate it.' I've never met anyone who loves it. It's like, it's there, and we have to accept it.
The first time I ever experienced someone hating something I did on television was on 'Boy Meets World.' I remember these kids coming up to me and calling me a 'home-wrecker,' and so I had flashes of that going into my role on 'Mad Men.'
I'm on my own when I say this, but I'm one of the few people that think that 'Everybody Loves Raymond' is better than 'Seinfeld.'
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
Certainly, network television in general relies a little bit too much on keeping people focused and emotional and scared and pushing the envelope by building wall-to-wall music.
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
I've seen, and liked, 'Insecure' and 'Atlanta.'
