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" A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something. "

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" 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. "

Mo Rocca

Comedy

Never

People

" Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore? "

" My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day. "

" I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked. "

" I don't think everyone should vote. If you have to be dragged into the polls, carried into the polls and smelling salts have to be used, you probably shouldn't be voting. However, we shouldn't be putting up barriers to voting that target certain groups. "

" I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable. "

" Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic. "

" It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict. "

" I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special. "

Mo Rocca

Myself

Self

" I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things. "

" One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that. "

Mo Rocca

Tree

Father

" 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 can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs. "

" Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now. "

" I was way too hyperactive to study for long. I would freak out, then crash, then be too tired to read or write. I really should have had less sugar. "

" Homemade sweaters are always itchy. "

" I am a kamikaze gadfly. "

Mo Rocca

I Am

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I hate homemade sweaters. "

" Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy. "

" Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously. "

" Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday. "

" Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive. "

" I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways. "

Mo Rocca

Hair

Feet

" I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation. "

" If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press. "