You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.
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Being on Twitter and social media, you obviously get to see a lot more of what people are thinking of you and of your show.
Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
It's a dialogue, not a monologue, and some people don't understand that. Social media is more like a telephone than a 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.
A television chat show is light entertainment, so it is trivial by its very nature. It is hardly the place to get people to reveal their innermost thoughts. Then it becomes sensationalism, and you lower yourself to the level of the popular newspapers.
I'm interested in social commentary.
I didn't get into acting to be a public service announcer or an advocate and yet, by virtue of this show and how we handle the subject matter that we've been given, that's kind of how it's evolved in certain ways.
I don't watch TV. When people at my house try to talk about TV, I'm like, 'Ah, I have no idea what I'm talking about.'
I would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests' books.
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