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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.

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.

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Attending a Sarah Palin rally was simultaneously one of the strangest and most chilling events of my life.

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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.

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I find it hard in my general life to think further than the week ahead.

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I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

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I think puns are not just the lowest form of wit, but the lowest form of human behavior.

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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 got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.

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I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

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I know I'd be an absolutely horrendous politician.

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I did sketch comedy, but I never did improv. So I've just tried to learn as I go.

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When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

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The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

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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 pleasant.

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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.

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I would hate to meet myself at 15.

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If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.

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Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

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Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

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You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

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There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.

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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.

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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 than to an American.

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It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

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Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

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The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

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Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

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It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

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You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job.

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People in Britain see Richard Quest as a kind of an offensive cartoon character.

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There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S. American stand-ups make it big in Britain.

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When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

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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.

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Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.

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I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy.

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There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

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Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.

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