We definitely sometimes get stuff that's different that we were expecting. I mean, that's part of the joy and the terror of interviewing real, live people. Sometimes they come along the journey with you, and most of the time they don't.

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

I don't think I'm very much like the person I am on the show. I'm certainly not as ambitious; no, that's not true, I'm kind of ambitious. In a nice way. But there's a part of me. A lot of me. There's a lot of what I think is funny.

The worst thing you can do to a dictator is laugh at him.

I'm not even reading about the U.S. election, I'm just totally involved in the Canadian one.

It's like you can't even go on the radio anymore and condemn a whole subset of people to hell without getting some blowback.

You don't want to be glib; you want to treat every story respectfully.