Top 66 Daily Show Quotes

The first show I worked on was ‘In Living Color.’ I think ‘The Daily Show’ was the culmination of having that point of view – being able to look at this third rail in our society.

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.

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

My perfect day starts with putting on the teapot. Then I have tea in my favorite ‘Golden Girls’ mug and watch ‘The Daily Show.’

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.

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 get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.

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.

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on ‘The Daily Show’… I don’t think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

No, no, no separate but equal… never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

Because I went from the ‘Daily Show’ where I was a fake news guy on a fake news show, to ‘Bruce Almighty’ where I played a news guy, to ‘Anchorman’ where I played a news guy, now I’m… yeah, I tend to gravitate towards suits.

I get all my U.S. politics from ‘The Daily Show.’

I did a movie a few years back, ‘Medicine for Melancholy.’ People will come up to me after a set and say, ‘I really love that movie. When are you going to do another one?’ Or ‘I loved you on ‘The Daily Show.’ Why did you leave?’ It’s kind of the same as saying, ‘I loved you in high school. You should have never left.’

When I worked on ‘The Daily Show,’ we had some puppets made of myself, John Oliver, and Jon Stewart. When I left the show, I stole the puppet. I took what was rightfully mine.

The one show that I will continue to be a guest on is ‘The Daily Show’ with Jon Stewart, if he’ll have me. It’s not competitive with CNN and it’s too much fun.

I record the following shows on a daily basis and watch them when I have the time/inclination: ‘The Daily Show,’ Rachel Maddow, ‘Hardball,’ ‘The Colbert Report,’ ‘The O’Reilly Factor,’ David Letterman.

‘The Daily Show’ was like my family. We had dogs in the office every day, all day. It was just such a warm, beautiful, sweet experience for me. Choosing to leave the show was so hard because I really, really loved everybody there, and I loved what it gave me and the platform it gave me.

I’ve watched ‘The Daily Show’ forever. So being a part of it is surreal.

Being a correspondent on ‘The Daily Show’ is some combination of doing a character and doing stand-up. It’s a juggling act to find a balance between being you and playing a role.

‘The Daily Show’ took a topic – politics – which many people considered to be boring, confusing, or even annoying to learn about, and found a way to make it interesting, digestible, and fun. I believe ‘Bill Nye Saves the World’ can do the same for science.

I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I’ve been on ‘The Daily Show,’ people think I’m a comedian. That’s not how I see myself.

Apparently it’s cool to watch The Daily Show.

Though not really a comedy, ‘Rosewater’ is a demonstration of the creed behind ‘The Daily Show’: belief in the crucial need for impious wit against entrenched power. The freedom of the press is also the freedom to depress – and to inspire. That’s a message that can outlive any Oscar season.

I majored in extracurriculars, honestly. I joined the Harvard Stand Up Comedy Society, which is a ragtag band of misfits. I wrote for ‘On Harvard Time,’ which was a student TV show trying to be ‘The Daily Show.’ And I wrote a humor column for ‘The Crimson’ starting my sophomore year.

I’m not really much of an actor, so when I started on ‘The Daily Show’, I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

I started ‘The Daily Show’ when I was 22. I was going to class at Long Beach.

I’m free to see things objectively because I don’t consider myself American, and I don’t consider myself British or Indian. I’m kind of an amalgam or mongrel of a lot of different places and experiences. In a lot of ways it’s been a good thing for me. It’s enabled me to do what I do on ‘The Daily Show.’

We’re pretty down-to-earth at ‘The Daily Show.’ Everyone is pretty sane. We don’t party crazy.

All the young voters who flocked to Obama in droves grew up watching ‘The Daily Show’ and the ‘Colbert Report.’

They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on ‘The Daily Show.’ They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.

To be sure, the hard-to-come-by interview – the ‘get’ – isn’t an uncommon phenomenon here at ‘The Daily Show.’ We’ve had high-profile dignitaries, low-profile indignitaries, stars you’ve heard of, authors you should have read.

My approach to comedy is that whenever it comes to me, I write it. With ‘The Daily Show,’ you have to write stuff every day, and that’s a new experience for me, to not only write on someone else’s schedule but a daily schedule.

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

The longer I spent time on ‘The Daily Show,’ standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world – most often from somewhere in the Middle East – the more I began to realize that ‘The Daily Show’ was radicalizing me.

Thank God for Occupy and thank God for ‘The Daily Show,’ Colbert and the rising up that’s going on around the world.

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.

No, no, no separate but equal… never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily 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.

After I left the ‘Daily Show,’ I was kind of sitting out for five years. I know what it’s like to not be able to have that platform for my voice the way I want it.

I’m not really much of an actor, so when I started on ‘The Daily Show,’ I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself.

I love the ‘Daily Show,’ and I think Jon Stewart is hysterical. But literally, the answer to every single problem is, ‘Congress should pass a new law.’ It’s this unbelievably optimistic view of, ‘We can pass a law, and then everybody will get along.’

I worked with Ismail Merchant on ‘The Mystic Masseur,’ I did ‘Sakina’s Restaurant,’ I’ve done plays, I’ve been on Broadway, I’ve done movies, I’ve done TV… but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as ‘The Daily Show’ has. It’s the nature of the beast.

It’s the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you’ve got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.

‘The Daily Show’ forced me out of my comfort zone.

I’m six feet tall. No one realizes that because on ‘The Daily Show’ I’m usually sitting.

There was one week where I got mistaken for Hasan Minhaj, who is on ‘The Daily Show;’ Kunal Nayyar, who’s on ‘Big Bang Theory;’ and Karan Soni of ‘Ghostbusters.’ This was one week.

People see me on the ‘Daily Show’ or ‘About a Boy’. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.

‘The Daily Show’ was amazing because I learned so much.

The great joy of doing ‘The Daily Show’ for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I’m playing the brown guy, and sometimes I’m not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

When I worked on ‘The Daily Show,’ we had some puppets made of myself, John Oliver, and Jon Stewart. When I left the show, I stole the puppet. I took what was rightfully mine.

Every field piece I did on ‘The Daily Show’ was a story that lasted five to six minutes. We had a protagonist, we had an antagonist and often put them at odds. We knew the story we wanted to tell before we went in, and often it was about plugging whatever character you have – in this case, a real person – into said part.