NewsRadio (TV Series)

Smoking (1995)

Stephen Root: Jimmy James

Quotes 

• Jimmy : I support fire safety. But you see those sprinklers up there? They're not hooked up to anything. I paid a guy off and had my nephew come in and super-glue them to the ceiling. New York, New York it's a hell of a town.

• Jimmy : You know, I - I thank God every day we're not a TV station.

• [Bill has returned from an overnight stay in the hospital] 

  Jimmy : Hey there. How you feeling?

  Bill : Good, thanks.

  Jimmy : Feel like suing the station?

  Bill : No.

  Jimmy : Good... I gotta go.

• Dave : Oh - uh, Mr. James; I didn't see you come in.

  Jimmy : Yeah - well, that's the way I like it. I'm like, uh, that magician guy - what's his name?

  Dave : Uh, David Copperfield?

  Jimmy : No.

  Dave : Siegfried?

  Jimmy : Uh-uh.

  Dave : Roy?

  Jimmy : That's the one.