John Logie Baird, Scottish Inventor, credited with inventing television, was born on this date in 1888. So today, 10 jokes and quotes about the goggle box.
- Television? No good will come of this device The word is half Greek and half Latin. Charles Prestwich Scott (1846-1932)
- There’s so much comedy on television - does that cause comedy in the streets? Dick Cavett
- It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every 12 minutes you are interrupted by 12 dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. R. Serling
- If it wasn't for those who invented electricity in what is aptly called the dim and distant past, we'd all be watching television by candlelight every night. Manchester Evening News
- One thing in favor of real life--it takes your mind off all that suffering on television. Kelly Fordyce in The Wall Street Journal
- Daytime TV: A plot by corporations to punish workers for staying home.
- Viewer discretion may be advised, but it’s never really expected.
- Opportunity often knocks, statistics still are showing, but the reason we don't hear it is: we've got the TV going. Stephen Schlitzer in The Lion
- One of the earliest programmes to be screened in colour was The Black and White Minstrel Show.
- Sex on Television can’t hurt you unless you fall off.
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