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"NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise."
"It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint."
"You're entering dangerous land when you start theorising about comedy."
"Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors."
"Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it."
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"I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways."
"When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny."
"It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world."
"It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict."
"No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show."
"If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press."
"Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out."
"The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't."
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