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" Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore? "
Mo Rocca
Media
Matter
Television
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" I was not a jock in high school. I know, you're shocked. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things. "
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Useless
Few
" 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. "
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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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Bold
Cave
" One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that. "
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Go
Father
" I hate homemade sweaters. "
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Hate
Sweaters
Homemade
" I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs. "
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Send
Everything
Everyone
" I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down. "
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Know
Christmas
Love
" If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press. "
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Hate
Right
Agree
" 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. "
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Risk
Language
Friends
" 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
Me
" 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. "
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Done
Bed
Mind
" I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation. "
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Kid
Team
Leadership
" Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy. "
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Great
Comedy
Hypocrisy
" 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. "
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Comedy
Never
People
" Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness. "
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Stocking
Goodness
Christmas
" My sophomore year I spent exactly one day on the JV football team. It was the tryout day. "
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Year
Team
One Day
" 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. "
Mo Rocca
Never
Show
Rest
" Homemade sweaters are always itchy. "
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Itchy
Homemade
Always
" 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. "
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People
Important
You
" I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around. "
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Book
Coffee
Table
" I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it. "
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Coffee
Luxury
Feeling
" Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America's electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it's not that simple. "
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Up
Finding
End
" 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. "
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Target
Think
You
" 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. "
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Dying
War
People
" 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. "
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Kind
Cool
Funny
" It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict. "
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Sensitive
Jokes
Conflict
" Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously. "
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Back
Who
Socks