Tv Show Creator Gifts

"Congratulations! It's a sitcom!"

Larry David and Cheryl Hines.

'Did I ever tell you that I had a TV show idea called 'Super Nanny' years before this one?. . . Except mine was about a crime-fighting goat.'

"The Net National Product rose slightly last month."

"And just like that, e got rid of Florida."

'He really wanted to get into the zombie role, so he became a Meth-Head actor.'

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

Showbiz Awards

Producer, Director and Novelizer.

Department of Theatre, Film and Television: Lights...Camera...Unemployment!

"I'll do the movie but I want to be highly compensated and highly acclaimed."

Sure, he likes it here - he's a cartoonist.

"Don't worry - I'm here for the television."

Ernie Studios. Hi, Ernie. What movies are you working on? We have a script about astronauts marooned on a planet filed with talking gorillas who are in hard economic times. I think I'll call it "The Apes of Wrath"! We're casting "Reignman." The central character is a savant monarch. And we're filming a movie about a suburban town populated by women with strange, long hair ... It's called "The Stepford Weaves."

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

Working in the Hazard Zone!

'Okay, folks, that's a wrap!'

"The following program was made possible by fluctuations in the random chaos of the Universe...."

Cut!

"Seth, here, is one of the best young creative compromisers in the business."

"I'm sorry, we're looking for the voice of a spunky animated turnip and your reading is more fruit than vegetable if you understand what I mean."

"Same story every morning - 'Can you come and fix our windmill?'..."

'Do you realize that we're sitting in a prefabricated house, eating precooked dinners, and listening to Chris Matthews' opinions?'

Canned laughter for sale in Theatrical Supplies shop.

"And by president we mean the one on Saturday night tv, not the real one. He kinda sucks."

There's a crew here from 60 minutes and they're coming this way.

Applause

TV jester.

'Gosh, really? You've never been on any reality show at all?'

"Now we move over to the sports desk."

"It's basically the 'Tragedy of King Lear' but with animated penguins."

'Contrary to the popular view, our studies show that it is real life that contributes to violence on television.'

Canadian film production

'This is the last time we hire former Cirque du Soleil members as stompers.'

Mary Tyler Moore: Spot the Difference