I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.

There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on The Daily Show, because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

Well, on a personal level, I would never want to take on a character who didn’t have some redeemable qualities. Even the worst of people, such as Michael Scott in The Office [Carell’s character in the US version of the Ricky Gervais sitcom], have some decent human qualities that you can latch onto.

I love my wife dearly, and, therefore, I've never cooked a meal, romantic or otherwise, for her.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

We are all facing the end one day or another. I say, live a good and prosperous life, make sure your choices count, make them count.