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"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."
"The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms."
"In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it."
"I had been thinking a lot about how the media has created this complex, fictionalized cartoon version of me, you know, this man-eating, jet-setting serial dater who reels them in, but scares them off because she's clingy and needy; then she's all dejected, so she goes into her lair and writes a song as a weapon. I mean, man, that's pretty intense. And I started thinking about what an interesting character that person is. And, if I was that person, what would my life motto be, my mantra? What would I say? I think I'd own it."
"Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches."
"In some respect Journalism is like science, the best ideas were one that survived and strengthened by opposition."
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"If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press."
"Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously."
"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."
"It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict."
"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."
"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."
"I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways."
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