I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels.

It really helps a comedian to be an outsider.

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

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.

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

I feel non-stop Brit shame!

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers.

Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

I have occasionally - if ever I do interviews that are difficult or nerve-wracking - I take my wife's dog tags and have them in my pocket because it's a very quick way to realize that what I'm doing is not that important. It's not really worth getting stressed about because it's not, you know, war.

The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it.

There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

Americans just don't understand dry wit.

I would much rather America was a more stable, wonderful place. You know, I love it.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

As any Brit will understand, things get a little easier when you don't have to be number one any more. Really, the fall of an empire is not as bad as everyone thinks. It's like retirement. People fear retirement, but it can turn out be rather pleasant.

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face. And that's really not a good instinct with a 'Daily Show' field piece, where it's supposed to be an interview.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

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.