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I do love TV as a medium.
I make jokes. That's what I do.
We all live with contradictions.
I think there's a lesson in everything.
God's got his hands in a lot of human pies.
Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.
I went to an all-boys Catholic school in Dallas.
I can't be manic without it feeling false to me.
I was arrested when I was 19 for inciting a riot.
I wrote for 'King of the Hill' for three seasons.
I am not looking at my TV show to change the world.
I feel like I've always thought of myself as a comedian.
There aren't a lot of roles for sleepy-eyed black dudes.
Monsters aren't as scary if you start shining lights on them.
Women deal with real issues with policing that don't really get talked about.
I do love Instagram, but even if I spend 15 minutes looking at stuff, I feel guilty.
I feel like you could watch 'Grand Budapest' without sound, and it would still be funny.
Flights are a good way to catch up on podcasts, but I'll listen to some jazz to fall asleep.
There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.
It's a very short walk to go from making jokes to getting on a soapbox and going on a diatribe.
I probably learned more about Marion Barry listening to Chris Rock than I did reading a headline.
I wouldn't consider myself a traditional sitcom actor or someone you'd even think would be in a sitcom.
I could go to L.A. for limited amounts of time, but I like New York too much. I like seasons. I like fall.
Steven Wright can do Steven Wright very well. Not everyone can do Steven Wright's jokes with the same results.
I represent my community, and I represent my people. And I've got to be honest if something seems questionable.
Policing of the disabled and how many deaf people get shot by cops is sort of insane. And it's not talked about.
Everyone gets very excited about the idea of space travel, but... it's not going to be everybody that gets to go.
Kanye is a student of art. He's an art-school-dropout type of kid that will talk about art till the cows come home.
Sometimes I feel I'm being animated, but it comes off differently. Unfortunately, I was cursed with these sleepy eyes.
There are 18,000 police agencies in this country. There's no network requiring them to operate according to the same guidelines.
So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.
When I came up in L.A., a lot of comics produced their own shows, and so if you wanted to have a show in the city, you produced it yourself.
Watching something is a personal experience, and I think watching something that is dealing with a heavy subject matter, it's a personal thing.
For me, when I think of curiosity on television, a lot of times my childhood was shaped by shows on PBS that encouraged and embraced curiosity.
When I'm on the road, museums end up being a place I go to in different cities that is always interesting. Museums and independent record stores.
At 'The Daily Show,' we were satirizing a news program. You put somebody in a suit, you put 'em behind a desk, and they become an authority figure.
I feel like you can't trust a cat. I feel like a cat's got an ulterior motive. The moment you show any weakness to a cat, the cat is gonna take over.
I think, with these shows, with 'Last Week Tonight,' with 'Full Frontal,' I think, as these shows have evolved, we all have research departments now.
There are certain things that you can blast through a stereo. You can blast hip-hop. You can blast heavy metal. You can't blast 'All Things Considered.'
After I left the 'Daily Show,' I was kind of sitting out for five years. I know what it's like to not be able to have that platform for my voice the way I want it.
I spent a lot of time in Brooklyn as a kid. I was born in New York, and my grandmother lived in Crown Heights, so there's a part of it that I feel this connection to.
When I used to put videos on MySpace, there'd always be someone posting something nasty. To those people, I'd send friend requests, and invariably, they accepted them.
When we simply write a place off as, like, 'Well, it's just Trump country,' for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It's their country, too.
What's sad is that we can have a reality-television performer for president without incorporating the other aspects of reality television - like voting and voter engagement.
When I was in college, I walked by the journalism school every day on my way to my own classes, and that's the closest I've come to having any sort of journalism background.
When I worked on 'The Daily Show,' we had some puppets made of myself, John Oliver, and Jon Stewart. When I left the show, I stole the puppet. I took what was rightfully mine.
I've had shows where, afterwards, people have commented or hoped I would talk more about something in politics or that I would make a joke about Mitch McConnell or something like that.
If you wanna be the comic relief in a big-budget movie, go to L.A. because there are five auditions in a week that you could hit up, and that increases your chances of getting those jobs.
I enjoy doing standup, but when I'm 50, I don't know if I'll still enjoy doing standup. It might be one of those things where I find other palettes that I want to paint on and make comedic.
Getting a Grammy nomination for 'Brooklyn' meant a lot, especially because, as an album, it was one that was very personal to me but also one that I self-produced and had gone outside the label.