I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.

There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.

Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts.

One day,I might be able to tell my grandkids I interviewed the last president of the United States.

It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is.

History moves fast. It's hard to believe that gay Americans achieved full constitutional personhood just five years after corporations did!

I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character.