His crack about people without TV might be an unconscious echo of an interview that comedian Caroline Aherne did a while ago, which ran something like 'you don't have a TV? What do you do at night?' 'We talk' 'But what do you talk about, you haven't got a TV!'
Recently Big Brother 'star' Chantelle divorced the minor pop star she married after a BB romance because she wanted to watch telly all night, and he didn't.