Zitat des Tages von Mo Rocca:
I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs.
It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.
While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.
Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.
One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
I am a kamikaze gadfly.
I bruise like a grape.
It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world.
If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.
I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked.
When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.
Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?
No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.
It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.
If I had a time machine I would go back 30 years and show up at my grandmother's apartment before the gargantuan meals she would serve and I would help her.
The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.
I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.
I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.
Think of all that hard work our founding fathers put in - the revolutionizing, the three-fifths compromising, having to write the entire Constitution with a quill - and yet they neglected to include the right to vote.
Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple.
