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I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

— Chi McBride

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.

— Michael Learned

When you reach a certain age, and people see you on television, they look at you and think, 'Wow! Everything must be great!' Well, everything isn't always great. You can be hailed on the street corner, but you still have to go home and take out the garbage.

— Larry King

I spent 25 years as a stand-up comedian.

— Steven Michael Quezada

I am thrilled to be 31, still running and having my daughter watch me even if it is on TV.

— Evelyn Ashford

A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.

— Eli Roth

I grew up in front of a television. I guess I'll grow old inside of one.

— Gilda Radner

You could write your fingers off for 25 years... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.

— Jack Germond

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

— Steve Coogan

You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?

— Jason Marsden

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.

— Craig Charles