I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

I was definitely prepared for it to be slower, and it has not worked out that way in any shape or form. I'm grateful as a comedian, and slightly demoralized, occasionally, as a human being - those two things are always very different.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.