Daily Inspiration Quote by David Spade

Spade’s gripe lands because it’s disguised as a complaint about TV, but it’s really a jab at an entire ecosystem that survives on manufactured niceness. “Fawning entertainment shows” isn’t just late-night fluff; it’s the red-carpet industrial complex: interview segments where every project is “exciting,” every celebrity is “so humble,” every scandal is “a misunderstanding,” and the host’s job is to launder publicity into something that feels like conversation. Spade is pointing at the way entertainment media learned to stop biting the hand that feeds it, then started kissing it on camera.

The punch in “not one of them is making fun of it all” is the assumption that satire used to be part of the deal. Hollywood has always been self-mythologizing, but the meta-jokes have thinned out as access became currency. If you make fun of the machine too directly, you don’t get invited back into it. So the “too many” isn’t just about quantity; it’s about redundancy: dozens of shows competing to deliver the same approved tone of gratitude and admiration, with almost no room for skepticism.

Coming from Spade - a comic whose persona is the elegant cheap shot - the line carries an implicit pitch: comedy should puncture the PR bubble, not decorate it. The subtext is less “I miss mean jokes” than “we’re watching a culture that can’t tolerate being mocked,” even when it’s practically begging for it.