The show is a satire, which gives us freedom to do anything we want. Satire is the magic word that wipes away any culpability. The media is jealous of this freedom.

It looks like garbage, my ass. But trust me, you're lucky it's not full-frontal.

I've got like a week and a half left, all bets are off.

Sometimes we have to actually say, I think you're really funny, but none of your jokes are going to make it on the air. So just answer my questions. Seriously.

I learned more about elections on election night 2000 than I ever did during my 16 years of schooling.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students for about a year. I think I'd probably still be doing it now if I hadn't just randomly decided to go to a sketch group audition. That led to doing improv, which led to the Daily Show. But it was fun while it lasted.