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If we're talking fantasy, I would love to host a late night talk show... More Fallon than Leno. Those guys always seem like they're having way too much fun at their 'jobs.'

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.

I'd like to do a show that's not a sitcom.

I stumbled into this format for 'Last Call with Carson Daly' that I really like, inspired by cable and Dave Attell's 'Insomniac.' I love being out on the street.

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

I don't think I would do a straight late-night talk show, like a 'Tonight Show' kind of thing. But I'm open to whatever is done well. I don't have any agenda. I'm not like Fugazi - I'm not trying to be just so punk rock until I die. Whatever is funny is good.

When you see the American chat shows, they've got so many ideas about what they could with the guests. I did stand-up on 'Jimmy Fallon' and they had loads of sketches and ideas, we don't tend to do that here.

Claudia Winkleman is a good laugh and James Corden too.

This is The Tonight Show. I can't tell you too much about it, other than the fact that this program is going to go on forever.

I was dreaming I was on the Sullivan Show.

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host 'Saturday Night Live.'

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.

There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

If I was doing a talk show, I would do the kind of show that comes on just once a month, with amazing guests.

'Saturday Night Live' is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

When I was growing up, I wanted to do Letterman and I loved that live, in-studio model. I still would do something like that.

I'd like to do a kind of 'Sunday Night At The Palladium'-style variety show on the BBC.

I've always loved working, doing interviews with the guys on the 'Today' show; everyone's really easygoing, and I always feel comfortable on the show.

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it.

Someday I would really love to do a talk show. That's something I've always been interested in. I like to talk, and I love to help people.