That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

If you want, you can try and get a broader perspective, or you can find people who are absolutely out of their minds, or find people that are doing incredibly complex and interesting and urgent journalism. And the same goes for our show. It's a prism into people's own ideologies, when they watch our program. This is just our take.

War that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country.

They create these rules and argue about things we don't even understand. It is like watching soccer. You sit there and you're sort of amused, but most of the time you're thinking, pick up the ball! That's what you're thinking.

I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about.

Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.

If everything is amplified, we hear nothing.