All Tom Shales Quotes
- "More fun than a barrel of monkeys." Has anyone ever stopped to think how cranky, if not downright vicious, a barrelful of monkeys would be,… Anyone
- In the realm of pop celebrity, the bar has been lowered so far that there is no bar. People can be famous for being famous,… All
- You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or… Been
- Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the… American
- The perils of credit and debt, especially perilous in the computer age, have long been acknowledged in pop culture, but very infrequently by TV. Acknowledged
- Obviously neither 'American Idol' nor 'Dancing With the Stars' is a variety show in the classic sense, but the way they incorporate elements of drama,… American
- People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet… Age
- The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content… Ads
- A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. Albert
- Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave. Across
- In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper,… American
- In the 500-channel universe, which may, of course, contain many more channels than 500, the fun never stops - fun at such a fever pitch… Agonizing
- Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has… Amalgamated
- Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home… Awful
- Crime dramas will never go away as long as people turn to television for, among other things, reassurance and comfort. Among
- By a twist of fate rather than anything approaching journalistic enterprise, I did the last major interview with Johnny Carson. Anything Approaching
- Maybe Larry Kings cannot thrive or even survive in a world where the norms for discourse are rage, vehemence and character assassination. King wanted to… Admired
- It might be hard to remember this far back, but once upon a time, some of us hoped that public TV would develop into a… Alternative
- So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary - films about… Been
- Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host of… Best
- Jerry Seinfeld is amazing in many ways, not the least of them his ability to find humor, and convincing us to find it, too, in… Ability
- Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica… Big
- Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair. Hair