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" In my career, I'm always trying to do something different. "

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" I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic. "

" I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative? "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way. "

" 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.'' "

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" I really love storytelling. "

" 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'm actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 always compartmentalized so many different things. "