Rob Corddry Quotes

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

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

There's very little you could do to prepare to be a correspondent on 'The Daily Show,' because it's not being a journalist, it's not being an actor. It involves elements of both of those things, but they're not required necessarily as job experience. It's helpful if you know how to improvise, but again, not a requirement.

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

When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

Jon Stewart kills me. I love him. And Bill Maher. He does an hour on HBO. But entirely political. It is awfully rough, but he does make me laugh.

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.

One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.

I don't consider myself a political comedian because it's so hard. It takes time away from me saying terrible things about TV.

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

The function of the New York Times is to enter the battlefield after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.

I'm not a pundit. I don't want to be a pundit.

I love comedians that dive into politics. I personally don't feel comfortable, with my background, weighing in unless I have a take that I think is funny enough that I would put it in front of an audience.

For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early years, we never took the show's excellence for granted, agreeing that someday we'd look back on the double whammy of 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report' as the golden age of TV's singeing singing satire.

On 'The Daily Show,' we get so caught up in the day-to-day news cycle. A story breaks, and then the piranhas in late night, we all jump to the headline, and we dissect it, and then we have to move on to the next day.

When it comes to politics, comedians read between the lines and see hypocrisies and half-truths. And we report those things to regular people who go, 'I noticed that, too!' or 'You're right, that doesn't make sense!'

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

I really enjoy Sarah Silverman's fearlessness.

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.