If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.

High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that.

I remember my wife wanted me to go see 'Contagion,' and I was like, 'Oh my God, why would I want to see that movie?' I mean, I'll just have nightmares and it will freak me out. It turned out that I really enjoyed it; I thought it was very well done.

I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: "It's the man from TV!"

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 ate fiberglass insulation. It wasn’t cotton candy like the guy said… my tummy itches.