Hasan Minhaj Quotes

I think, with any topical show, it's very easy to find yourself caught up in the news cycle, and working at 'The Daily Show,' I definitely found myself in that, where we would be talking about the last 24 hours.

There's so many shows, whether it's 'Last Week Tonight' or 'The Daily Show' or 'Full Frontal' or 'Late Night With Seth Meyers,' that are really doing great stuff talking about what's going on in the world and what's going on with the president, and those stories that everyone winds up talking about, whether on social media or in their jobs.

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

'The Daily Show' was amazing because I learned so much.

'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.

To me, involvement with news is absolutely inebriating. It's what makes my life exciting.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

I am, and remain, passionate about news.

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.

The media are not progressive enough to let us govern. 24/7 news is the worst thing that has happened to the ability to govern.

Modern young news consumers want not only to know what happened but why it happened.

We try and slow down the news.

That's the thing about 'The Daily Show' - we're doing four shows a week, so we can't be too precious about what's going on.

I love, for example, 'Full Frontal with Sam Bee.' I just love her show.

Now, I bow to nobody when it comes to estimating the influence of 'This Week.'

I see myself primarily as a comedian, and my aim on the 'Last Leg' is to be as funny as I can about the news.

I think it does because if you think of where "The Daily Show" was when I inherited it from Jon Stewart, I was in a space where, essentially, everything seemed like it was on track, you know, in terms of - from a progressive point of view, you know, you're looking at Republicans who, yes, were in control of many facets of government.

I don't watch much television. Yeah, that's pretty funny. I don't know where The Daily Show stand politically, do you?

I talk about things that are front page news.

I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

My generation grew up on 'The Daily Show.' Jon Stewart gave me solace. He was the only person who I felt defended Muslims when crazy things were happening; the only place you could find a nuanced take on Iraq was Jon Stewart's show.

I feel like my comedy voice is to take the news and everything that's happening and put a funny spin on it or to pick out the things I find funny about it.