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

I just want to do cool stuff.

I actually got the part. And I thought, Well, I'll do it for a while. I'll just quit if it's stupid.

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

As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.

If anything, there's more at stake when you're older, and more responsibility and more legitimate things to worry about.

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.