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

My job was basically to look at a good friend completely naked and rub lotion on her back. I was naked too, but I got to put a towel on almost immediately. So I was like, "Well, this is going to be embarrassing, but it's also going to be kinda awesome."

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.

For most of my life, I was a worrier and an over-thinker. I had pretty bad social anxiety.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

Anything that you can do a tiny bit of research about, I'll turn it into an obsession.

The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.