I think it might honestly be time for the Sunshine State to officially change its motto to the Worst State.

You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

Having a human conversation is not something I've had any training in either as a comedian or as, you know, a human being.

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.