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I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

When I got to 'The Daily Show,' they asked me to have a political opinion. It turned out that I had one, but I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices.

I don't want to be a part of something I don't want to watch.

I do not want to be a pawn in a political campaign.

I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.

I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

Even a liberal city will have a prehistoric homophobe. After a show in Washington State, this guy came up to me and said, 'Your shows was a lot funnier before you started in on your agenda.' I told him, 'Please, please keep people like you from coming to my show. I'm glad you had a bad time.'

Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It's not going to do me any good.

I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.