After Quote by Ernie Wise

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?

— Ayn Rand

We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.

— Victoria Pratt

It was horrible having to watch myself on TV. I think I would have had a much better time if I didn't take it…

— Alaska

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum.…

— Rick Moranis

The Daily Show' was really a turning point, where people started to realize that comedy can have a true cultural impact and can have…

— Adam Conover

I think the big spin we were able to put on it was most hidden camera shows, the people that don't know they're on…

— Brian Quinn

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything…

— Rowan Atkinson

Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.

— Richard Lloyd

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

— Margaret Cho

I don't think stand-up comedy is becoming too serious, in fact, I wish it was. We are still mostly doing frivolous stuff.

— Varun Grover

We're so politically correct; we take things so seriously.

— Bernie Mac

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] didn't expect people to take it seriously. But naturally they did, and they thought we were a couple of wankers.

— George Michael