When you're doing stand-up, you want to stand onstage and, to the extent that you can, uncomplicatedly entertain.

I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

I'm British. I don't really have access to my emotions on a daily basis.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it’s actually more like raisins into a cookie - because nobody f-‍-‍-ing wants them there.

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.