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" Every television show is sentenced to death - time and date of execution unknown. "

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

" Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately. "

" 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? "

" My father was in law enforcement growing up. He was a probation officer. And I've always understood the point of view of the peace officer, you know, because of my dad. "

" One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it. "

" It used to be that the black comic figure had to have this bravado and always showed strength. "

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

" 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. "

" The first show I worked on was 'In Living Color.' I think 'The Daily Show' was the culmination of having that point of view - being able to look at this third rail in our society. "

" I didn't even know how much of a feminist I was, and I realized, 'Oh my God, I was raised by a single mom who had to raise six kids. I have three sisters. Larry, you've been a feminist your whole life, and you really didn't know it until you've been presented with these issues.' "

" I would consider myself more a passionate centrist. "

" 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. "

" I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic. "

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

" I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too. "

" There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing. "

" I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content. "

" If you look at somebody like Sam Bee, she got to create her own thing without any expectations that there was a show there. That was probably liberating for them. "

" The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane. "

" People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves. "

" 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. "

" Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things. "

" I'm understated in my approach. "

" I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit. "

" The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer. "

" I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really. "

" The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know? "

" I'm not going to grouse and complain when there's nothing I can do about it. Once you've broken up with somebody, arguing with them is not going to bring them back. You may want to stop their Twitter account or call them up late at night, but they made the decision to leave. "