In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
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As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
On a TV show, you don't know where the character is going.
You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.
On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience.
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.
People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.