Jenna Wortham Quotes

I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.

The truth of the matter is, when you're on 'Howard Stern,' you feel like you're in his living room talking to him, you don't feel like you're having an interview.

Everybody gathered at my Aunt Hannah's house, and we sat around and talked, ate, drank and told lies. That's what people do, and I just sat there and listened.

I'm looking to do an honest job, and I don't have any Indian talk show as a reference point. I'm not looking down on them, but I want to do what Oprah did.

I love to listen to Howard Stern with the guy who drives me.

I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.

I would love to do a podcast because I've done so many of them, guesting on them. Plus, anything goes, which I love.

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.

Fortunately... 'With Fi and Jane' features BBC veterans Fi Glover and Jane Garvey sitting in the BBC cafe, nattering about whatever interests them.

I listen a lot to Howard Stern. Not the show, the interviews. He has a separate podcast of just interviews. They're fantastic.

I love having the ability to do podcasts because of the long format, informality, and the opportunity to decide what is said, how the show is laid out, and who the guests are.

I'm that person in the bar who's like 'Can they turn the music down ? I would like to chat.' I don't like clothes. I'm terrible at all that stuff. I like sitting around and drinking a pint and gossiping or whatever.

To go around the world, to talk to almost anybody you want to talk to, to have enough time on the air, so that you could really tell a full story. What a voyage of discovery it was.

When you're doing a radio show, you can express yourself.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.

If I did a talk show, this would allow me to speak on what's happening at that moment. I can be current, and I get to flex my stand-up muscle but stay at home without doing the traveling.

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.

Right now I am kicking around an idea to do a web talk show on a boat. Guests would come on and go fishing with me. I would like to take people who have never fished: You get them out on the water and they really open up.

Great reporters get people to talk to them. Master reporters get people to want to talk to them.

First date, it's always fun to go somewhere or do something, like go see a band... not make it too formal.

I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you're not going to talk pitches for three hours.

My goal was always to take a talk show to the network. I never wanted to be on MSNBC.

My most ideal date would be something spontaneous, probably a concert, where there's good music and we can talk and hang out.

I've wanted to be in daytime television for a long time, because that's where you can convey a message.