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01 / belief
“I think, maybe in a sense that everybody’s more used to now, that they know Miami is really the capital of Latin America, but I don’t think it any more than New York has become passé.”
02 / belief
“Both of us had been raised in the United States, and our view of the Peter Pan story was the Disney cartoon, the famous Disney cartoon, and Mary Martin on Broadway hanging on wires, you know, this 43-year-old lady swinging around stage.”
03 / commitment
“I will speak for my own personal experience as a dad of a daughter. If I saw a guy get up and doing underage rape jokes, it just wouldn’t .”
04 / belief
“Eighty percent of the city, I think, speaks Spanish as its first language, and a lot of people don’t speak any English at all.”
05 / uncertainty
“A pro-Trump humorist — I don’t know if any exist — would be a lot more subversive than any of the nine billion .”
06 / observation
“What I wanted to say, but rarely felt comfortable saying, was, “If you don’t know what the point is, then you can’t really write this report.”
07 / belief
“I know that was contrived, but I think, at least early in his career, it was pretty real.”
08 / belief
“I think that’s true, and this is not to dismiss religious . . . My dad was a religious person, and he was a funny guy.”
09 / belief
“There was a time when half the jokes you heard, and this was in my lifetime, were Polish jokes, whatever. And as we think back, it was kind of stupid.”
10 / uncertainty
“Oh, we eventually do arrest people usually, but sometimes it’s the police officers doing these things. [laughter] No, I don’t know .”
11 / belief
“I guess he just got too successful to need to be funny anymore, or maybe he just got tired of it, which I think happens.”
12 / preference
“I personally have gotten to the point where I don’t pay that much attention to Trump jokes anymore because they all seem to be the same joke to me: “Hey, look at what he said.”
13 / evaluation
“Truly, if you were to hire professional writers to write a scene and professional actors to act, you could not possibly have outdone that particular 30-second sequence. It was just so wonderful because it was real.”
14 / evaluation
“As soon as you start to be pretty confident that anything you write is great, then you’re going to suck in any creative field, I think.”
15 / preference
“On the other hand, there’s a million good TV shows, I think, more than there ever used to be.”
16 / evaluation
“I don’t know, I think that the real comedians . . . Colbert, he’s basically delivering jokes written by a staff of writers and curating whatever they got from the Internet, or presenting whatever they curated from the Internet.”
17 / evaluation
“That point was reached a long, long time ago. So I think there was a steep decline in the quality of American political humor from which we haven’t really recovered, combined with the fact that a lot of what passes for humor now, on both sides, is just vicious attacks.”
18 / evaluation
“Inevitably, if they really thought about it, they were able to, in one sentence, summarize why it was really important. But they refused to do that because the way they found out was by spending 10 years of study and all this data and everything, and that’s the way they wanted everyone to look at what they did.”
19 / preference
“I read a lot of Mad, read every issue of Mad magazine when I was 10, 11, 12, 13.”
20 / preference
“I stopped reading it when I started reading National Lampoon, which struck me as more, I don’t know, a little more grown-up.”