Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart
Lawrence Simon "Larry" Gelbart was an American television writer, playwright, screenwriter and author, most famous as a creator and producer of the record-breaking hit TV show M*A*S*H...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth25 February 1928
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
today television audience
Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.
funny weapons television
Television is a weapon of mass distractrion.
real television honest
Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.
television vaudeville boxes
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
credit people terribly
A lot of people credit him with being terribly influential in their careers,
campaign fulfilling talk
Talk about fulfilling a campaign promise, ... M*A*S*H.
bitter states jokes
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
optimist recovering
I'm a recovering optimist.
new-york war rain
A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.
nature burning amazon
The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.
style
Your style is formed by what you can't do.
doe
One does not have humor. It has you.
divorce causes chiefs
Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce.
may born equal
We may be born equal but we're not equally talented.