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

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

" I just feel it's important to make sure that behind the scenes is as filled with diverse voices as in front of the scene is. "

" 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. "

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

" Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it. "

" 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. "

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

" As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race. "

" No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death. "

" 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. "

" I always compartmentalized so many different things. "

" Not everybody's gonna get your vision. "

" Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My parents are from the Midwest. They're from Evanston, Illinois. They moved out to Los Angeles right before I was born. "

" I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.'' "

" There's something about a new family moving into the White House that's kind of interesting, even if you didn't vote for them. "

" I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression. "

" I think the term 'fair reporting' is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate. "

" You never want to defend a joke. People get to choose whether or not to laugh and whether or not they think something is funny. "

" 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'd rather go after the people who are the guardians or what we're doing - the news people and the politicians and that sort of thing. I always feel like those should be my targets, not really entertainers. That's just my personal opinion. "

" I really love storytelling. "

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

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

" 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. "