- Chris Burden
- "I had an intuitive sense that being shot is as American as apple pie. We see people being shot on TV, we read about it in the newspaper. Everybody has wondered what it's like. So I did it."
- By disassociating viewers from TV’s disassociation from reality, Burden was able to take advantage of the medium’s powerful communicative potential while also momentarily disrupting its form and effect on viewers.
- Alan Resnick
- Teddy’s wife is not Resnick’s wife, and Resnick denies programming the wife or Teddy’s love for it. When asked what such a love might mean, Resnick sounds simultaneously elated and a bit sad. “It means that he somehow found a wife, I don’t know how, but all I know is that he is much happier than I am. I also think there is an innocence with which he views the world that I am extremely envious of.”
- Mike Smith
- Smith's "Mike" persona has been described as a bland, naïve, "perpetually hapless, perennially upbeat everyman" or "wise fool," who stubbornly pursues small-time entrepreneurial schemes and social goals with knotted brows and a "peculiar combination of puppyish enthusiasm and quiet desperation." x
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