I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every American boy….

I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I'm like, "Eh, I made it th….

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show..

It started off for me as just wanting to be an actor and sort of resenting in a weird way being expected to write as well as be a comedian and an imp….

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do..

I am realizing how old I am 'cause I am meeting so many people that were born in the 80s, which is crazy to me that I was going through puberty and [….

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off..

I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day..

I always fancied myself more of an actor than a comedian before I realized that only assholes make that kind of distinction..

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election..

My job was basically to look at a good friend completely naked and rub lotion on her back. I was naked too, but I got to put a towel on almost immedi….

I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer..

I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards..

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show..

I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far ….

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer..

I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students for about a year. I think I'd ….

I've been an Apple guy since the mid 80's and that's when I was like, "Boy, you guys really got me here. I know exactly what you're doing, right down….

I'm a complete egomaniac. It makes me feel terrible to say [being interviewed] is hard. It's taxing in a way. Just 'cause it's a lot of mental energy….

If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about..

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to..