You just try to be true to your idea of what is funny and what is also interesting.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

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.

If your name is Sepp, at the bare minimum you’ve strangled someone in a bar fight.

Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.

I'm British, so obviously I repress any powerful emotions of any kind in relation to anything.

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.