Comedian and actor David Cross appeared on Current TV's "Countdown" program Monday evening to promote his upcoming movie and other gigs when the conversation turned to a recent study that watching one hour of television shortens your life by 22 minutes.
Cross was being very serious on how this would benefit his pocket because that would mean he would not have to pay for medical care of the elderly who are "not contributing anything." Keith Olbermann, the host of "Countdown," believes this is a Darwinian idea. Transcript below:
David Cross: "I don't mind, I like the idea -- or I'm comfortable with the idea that TV watchers are having their lives shortened because then you're talking about just hundreds of millions of really elderly people who are just going to watch TV anyway. And that's just a medical care that I'm going to end up having to pay for and they're just watching TV, they're not contributing anything.
"They need to be taken care of. Let's get rid of them a little sooner. Seven years? I'm talking about no, not a 97-year-old but 90."
Keith Olbermann: "It's a little Darwinian here though? Wouldn't it imply that if you're going to be late in life a sort of ardent 24-hour-a-day TV watcher you would have been a TV watcher earlier in life and thus die earlier? Isn't that saying that all the people who like to spend their sunset years watching TV and going those seven years earlier aren't they already dead in 1976?"
Cross: "Whoa, man. You're blowing my mind. [laughter] Doctor Trip."
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