Television Presenters Quotes

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.

Working with Ant and Dec is so surreal.

Well, I think Ant and Dec clearly liked me because 'Saturday Night Takeaway' is basically 'Noel's House Party.'

We've always liked the word 'chump', and it's quite nearly our initials - Clarkson, Hammond, and May Productions.

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

In broadcasting, there's a lot of longevity offered to people like Griff Rhys Jones and Stephen Fry, who are polymaths more than comics. We're comics first and foremost.

I love Keith Lemon. I love Holly Willoughby.

In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits' panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it's debatable how good an idea that was.

I have a glam squad, as most on-air people do. I think CNN has some of the best makeup artists, quite frankly.

Live TV is no joke.

I love these sort of documentaries, which you might turn on late on a Saturday night - like, say, 'The Alma Cogan Story.' But they are ripe for spoofing, because the presenters are always so serious and anxious to make themselves look like rather attractive and interesting people.

I know how to do the other stuff - the 'Access' stuff and go be goofy and all that. That I can do. For me to sit on a desk, when I know on the other network is Bob Costas and Dan Patrick is a change.

People like Bryant Gumbel and Bob Costas are terrific broadcasters because they get challenged every day.

I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

It's not only teenagers who think they look good in pre-holed jeans, and I doubt it's only the superannuated who are amused by Ant and Dec.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.