Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think that every time you bring a subject into the mainstream landscape of television, it can have a huge impact. Television is such an influential medium.
The television business is actually going through a tremendous transition, but I think at the end of the day, television is still paramount.
While television is a good servant, it's a bad master. It can swallow up huge quantities of our lives without much happiness bang for the buck.
I haven't had television since 1991, and it definitely influences me. As a child of the 1970s, I couldn't hold a narrative in my head; I was lucky if I could hold a joke in my head, because every time you turn on television or radio, it wipes the slate clean - at least in my case.
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.
The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit - you know how 'American Idol' seems to appeal to every human being on the planet? Doing that in comedy nowadays is very, very hard.
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.