Famous quotes by Famous people

” You can find comedy anywhere. “

” As long as Fox News continues to exist, you’ve got comedy. “

” I can only speak for myself, but you never set out to be funny. You just set out to play the scenes real, and hopefully the funny comes. “

” Kids are appendages on so many family sitcoms. They’ll come in, they’ll make half a joke, and then they’re like, ‘OK, gotta go to school,’ or ‘I’m going to my room.’ And then you never see them again. “

” The suburbs have this veneer of happiness, you know? This veneer of the ideal life. From afar, it’s all together – white picket fence, nice house – but you peel away one little layer, and it all comes crumbling down. “

” With as much media as there is out there, there’s always something that someone says that’s stupid that you can make fun of. “

” I get ‘The New Yorker,’ and I’m usually about three issues behind. But I do catch up. The problem is that it always seems like homework, but then you start reading it and go, ‘Why am I not doing this all the time? These are such great stories!’ But, yeah, that stack gets so big and dense. “

” Real life doesn’t exist on a network television comedy. They just don’t let you travel down any road that is presumably ‘dark. “

” Every field piece I did on ‘The Daily Show’ was a story that lasted five to six minutes. We had a protagonist, we had an antagonist and often put them at odds. We knew the story we wanted to tell before we went in, and often it was about plugging whatever character you have – in this case, a real person – into said part. “

” With comedic news, it’s about having a point of view. If you don’t have that, you don’t have a show. “