My job was to find interesting material that would give us a quality television show.

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.

It's not that I don't like TV. It's alien to me. I haven't watched a television show in decades.

At the end of Season 1 of 'Cheers', it was the lowest rated show in all of network television... So we turn to 'Bill Cosby'; when he came to Thursday night, he just exploded. And once the audience was there, we said, 'Hey, by the way, we also have this other great show. It's called 'Cheers'.'