Jane and I got mixed up with a television show -- or as we call it back
east here: TV -- a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible
Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium -- we call it a medium
because nothing's well done. It was discovered, I suppose you've heard,
by a man named Fulton Berle, and it has already revolutionized social
grace by cutting down parlour conversation to two sentences: "What's on
television?" and "Good night".
-- Goodman Ace, letter to Groucho Marx, in The Groucho
Letters, 1967
east here: TV -- a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible
Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium -- we call it a medium
because nothing's well done. It was discovered, I suppose you've heard,
by a man named Fulton Berle, and it has already revolutionized social
grace by cutting down parlour conversation to two sentences: "What's on
television?" and "Good night".
-- Goodman Ace, letter to Groucho Marx, in The Groucho
Letters, 1967
Related:
- Bart: [gasps] Sideshow Bob!
[everyone gasps and screams]
Bob:
[on TV] Hello, Springfield. Sorry to divert your attention... - We invented a new protocol and called it Kermit, after Kermit the Frog,
star of "The Muppet Show." [3] [3] Why? Mostly because... - saga n.
[WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N
random broken people.
Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told... - Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done.
Ernie... - Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
attributed to both Fred Allen and Ernie... - Quote #251
"Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done."
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Fred Friendly, former head of CBS... - Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor
well-done." -
Ernie... - Television is a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well
done.
Ernie Kovacs (1919...
