I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.

Isn't it a little racist to call it Black Friday?

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

I don't know what it's going to take for people to really wake up and understand that they [the Bush administration] are liars and they are murderers.

I want to do an intelligent talk show where you have room to breathe...

It seemed like the right time. You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’ There are other things on my plate I want to do — I’ve been writing a play, I’ve been neglecting my standup.

The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.