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" 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. "

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

" I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic. "

" Police have to have one of the most difficult jobs in society today. But at the same time, I think, a person in that position - their responsibility has to be high as well. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 would consider myself more a passionate centrist. "

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

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

" 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. "

" A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her - my other sister's daughter is going into nursing. There's a lot of that in the family. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California. "

" I always compartmentalized so many different things. "

" 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 the type of person to have a schadenfreude. "

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

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

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

" Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying. "

" Whenever I did sitcoms, that always happened on your show. Once the show was on the air, it takes on a life of its own. It develops, and it becomes something else. "

" 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 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.'' "