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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can't I do that, too? "

" I'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist. "

" When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all. "

" 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'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. "

" I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm understated in my approach. "

" When you use the word 'fair' in television, you're already in a fantasy world. Nothing is really fair in television. "

" I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person. "

" 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. "

" When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them. "

" MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network. "