Tonight I have a friend with me here who is hooked on TV Jim when did you first contract the TV habit
Three years ago Ken I uh became vidiot
Vidiot Is this a term that uh I don't understand too much about being
Well that's what we people call ourselves
Vidiots
Yeah
Well how did this happen How did you get into this this terrible situation that has torn your soul so far apart
Oh it was when I started watching uh Milton Berle
Milton Berle um
Well I got sort of wrapped up in
Was this a friend of yours
No he's a fellow that's on television
Oh I see
I see you don't watch television very much huh
Well I I have had uh other interests and that's why I but we're discussing you
Oh yeah
Uh Milton Berle was the fellow that um put you on this uh
Yeah I got wrapped up in the show Ken It just uh the sort of thing that made me feel relaxed and uh forget my troubles and worries and I
Would you start out with a just a watching a little bit huh
Yeah just a little bit Few hours a day at first
And then uh how much are you watching now
Well I figure it's uh fifteen hours Ken
Fifteen hours and you how long do you sleep
Well I usually get about a four five hour sleep
Oh I see well that leaves fifteen hours that you watch TV and four or five hours that you how long do you work Uh four or five hours a day or
Yeah I'll when I work
Oh there are days when you don't even work you just
I can't
Well why not
I have to watch television
Oh Well unless you
I got a TV set in my car too you know that
In your car
Yeah
Well that will have to go right away
Well they say it's illegal but uh I don't care uh I can't miss uh Godfrey and uh Do you realize I'm missing uh Steve Allen right now
I had no idea who is this
This is the longest I've been away from a set in two years
Steve Allen Is this some friend of yours that you watch television with
He's on television He's a star
Well the same way you're on television
He's a star on television
He's a star on television What do you mean he's one of the guys that you're hooked with I mean you watch him
Yeah Yeah
What does he give you
Uh entertainment Makes me laugh Makes me forget my worries
Well you mustn't have any worries at all if you're watching television fifteen hours a day
Well that's why I came here too and I don't know just why I have 'em uh
What's your problem
I shouldn't have any worries because uh television makes me happy again but
What's your problem
I'm worried
About what
I watch too much television
If television gives you what you say it gives you
I can feel PAINS starting right NOW I've gotta have a set
You've got to have a set
Turn on that set will you Ken
No I I that set is is is uh not connected That is not a
Turn it on will you
No that is not a
I'm starting to get these PAINS
Listen I don't care who's on television right now
Oh Ken Turn it on
There's probably nothing but an old late movie
I don't care
It's not worth it
It is Turn it on please
Listen read this book here try this
Turn it on
Here's a little advert company book sound of objects being knocked over Man
I just gotta get a hold of that set Turn it on struggling Oh these pains are too much
Alright let me help you let me help you I'll just let you watch for a few seconds there you are click
Oh oh that's much better
Alright See what a shameful shameful
Oh there he is I don't even need the audio you know I don't need the audio Just the video
Shameful shameful shameful
Oh that's great
Oh there's nothing I can do for you
Feel much better
Y'know I think you're going to have to give yourself up you're beyond my treatment I think that's all you can do is to just give yourself up
You can turn it off for a minute now I'll run right home and uh watch it See you later Ken door closes
Well one of the many problems that I face well wait a minute I I think I'll turn this set on myself My gosh it's beautiful My it's in black and white And there's a lovely musician standing in the center of the screen He's got a guitar And he's got he's all hair
