Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit th...
If you work on a comedy show, your basic form of communication is teasing. That's generally how we speak to each other: you communicate the information between the lines of insulting sentences.
I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!
I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.
There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.
People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.
It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face. And that's really not a...
The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.
I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.
As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasan...
You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.
It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa.
Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.
I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.
I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.
I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.
I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.