It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.
I don't want to watch 'Newsnight.' I just don't understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure.
When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.
For me, comedy is a day-to-day report on the human condition. It's what's happening right now. I get maybe 20 minutes of my act straight from the newspaper.
I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
On Letterman and Leno, it always bothers me when they go outside the studio and it's daytime.
I think it's particularly fun not being a full-time showbiz reporter because you still have the 'Oh, wow!' factor when you go out on the red carpet and there are these big stars that are standing there. But if you're doing this day in and day out, it becomes a little blase.
Every day I turn on my television set and I see Newt Gingrich on television, I rejoice.