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"I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence."
"You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it."
"I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it."
"Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs."
"My vintage Levi's are my favorite on the show, 'cause they really fit."
"Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics."
"You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up."
"I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'."
"My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic."
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"It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict."
"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."
"Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously."
"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."
"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."
"I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways."
"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."
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