Eric Church Quotes

I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.

No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

The scariest thing about reality TV is having all new characters that you have to be introduced to.

We'll watch 'Britain's Got Talent,' 'X Factor,' 'Come Dine with Me' and 'Masterchef.' But we don't watch 'Big Brother,' which is rubbish. I certainly won't be tuning into the new series of 'Celebrity Big Brother' either. I think it's awful, exploitative and vulgar.

I enjoy 'The Apprentice' and the one that's called 'Take My Life' and the other one called 'Stop Hitting Me.'

I really like the 'Silicon Valley' show. It's good to do a little rib-poking and not take yourself too seriously, so I think it's awesome the show does that.

People will always see things that they want to see but, ultimately, 'Celebrity Juice' is about three mates having an absolute laugh.

Some things tend to parody themselves, and we don't need to do it very much. 'Survivor' is like that.

I've been watching cop procedurals my entire life, so when I saw an opportunity to make fun of one, I jumped at it.

There's enough people that do unfunny music. I'll leave the serious stuff to Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline.

We now have a generation of people who in many cases feel that if they become chefs, they'll get a TV show. They have a signature haircut, a year into the business, or a branding arrangement with a shoe company. I don't really relate to that. I guess this is the world we live in now.

We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.

Stand-up and comedy is the place where we are supposed to be able to make fun of all of the world's ills.

But the main thing I don't want to be is un-funny. That's really the mandate. Just whatever we're doing, make it as funny as we can possibly make it. And believe me, if the show starts going down, we'll introduce a baby. We'll do everything that they did on 'Family Ties.' I'm not afraid of that.

In every spoof I make real love to the things I am spoofing.

Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show

People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to write jokes about the absurdity that we see in government and the world and all that, and that's it.

There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.

Back when we started this show, the hottest program on television was 'Keeping Up With the Gabors.'

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly.

As I was reading the book [Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries] I kept thinking, "Sweetie, you are dancing as fast as you can!"

I found myself often asking the question, "Who deserves to be made fun of?" Depending on your mood, the answer can be no one or everyone. It took me a while to understand the math of how those field pieces came together. I don't think that ridicule is ever funny, but there are times when that gets the biggest response.

What I do is, I make fun of people and I make fun of myself and things around us and exaggerate things. And I'm never mean-spirited. See, the word insult means some guy who's a real unkind human being. But I don't do that, because otherwise I wouldn't be headlining all these years, thank god, and all these people showing up to see me.

That's sort of what I wanted to make fun of a little bit with Don Jon. And I think oftentimes, if you're going to talk about a sort of substantial topic like this, the best way to do it is with a sense of humor.

I don't think I'm too mean to celebrities. I poke fun, but I think in the end, they always win.