Samuel Johnson on entertainment

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.

A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn’t work.

Gallagher1946–2022

• Comedy
• Television

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot1888–1965New York Post (Sept 22, 1963)

• Television

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Frank Lloyd Wright1867–1959

• Television