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" Any voting group has an interest that they want from politicians. That's why politicians have to talk to different people. But to reduce the black interest to free stuff is so insulting. It just makes me apoplectic. "

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" When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television. "

" I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. "

" You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game. "

" As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that. "

" In my time, I experienced a black man not being able to be the quarterback of a football team. "

" My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures. "

" I am from Pomona, California. I was born in Los Angeles. "

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" I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do. "

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" I've always watched the political shows. "

" When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time. "

" Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100. "

" I'm not really a self-promoter-type person. "

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" Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the '80s when that happened. It's hard to even think of that now, you know? "

" Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas. "

" It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody. "

" It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day. "

" The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show. "

" All writers have a love-hate relationship with writing. Performing is fun, too, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite. But the most fulfilling is producing. "

" I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man. "

" I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you. "

" I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words. "

" 'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news. "

" When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist. "

" I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes, I'm just not mad at it. "

" I always compartmentalized so many different things. "

" Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics. "

" I didn't get into comedy to talk about violent death all the time. "

" I just believe what I believe. "

" You never know in TV - sometimes you're on at the wrong time at the wrong place. Sometimes you don't get a chance to catch on. "