I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.
I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.
I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.
When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.
The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.
I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.
I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.
Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.
Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.
My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I ...
I wanted to be a soccer player. I knew that couldn't happen.
Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.
Most stand-ups, once they have done it, think of it as their default job. I'm pretty sure Jon Stewart still feels that way now. You are a stand-up first; other things come and go.
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British ...
We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.
I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.
It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always intrigued by what a clay wizard version of yourself would be.
