Stephen was so funny and so unique, he had such a legion of fans and he's a special performer. The way I look at it is I have to be myself and do my own thing and do something different. Stephen is going to be off doing something new himself (on CBS). I'll be more in competition with myself than with Stephen. I'll be more in competition with the new Stephen, to be honest.

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Really, folks. How many more do we need? let's understand this number, OK? That's like if Bill Cosby drugged and raped every single U.S. President from George Washington to John F. Kennedy.

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Better to have an authentic, interesting conversation and have the show be a little quieter than just setting up jokes that at the end of the day nobody cares about, that, I'm not interested in. I'd rather be scared by something somebody says.

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I don't always feel like I have to have a strong opinion about something, sometimes I'm agnostic about an issue and my whole thing is to try and get more information. That's part of my comic persona, too. I call myself a passionate centrist, which means half the time I disagree with myself.

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We'll change on the air, as well, a show like this has to adapt on the air. Because once you're on the air, the audience will tell you what your show is, what they like. You have to listen to that and keep evolving.

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People say, 'Are you going to be ready?' that's irrelevant. Monday night is premiere night. It's coming whether I like it or not.

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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.

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I have this rule. It's called 'Top Dog-Underdog:' Underdog gets to make fun of Top Dog, but Top Dog can't make fun of Underdog. But you know what? You get Top Dog, you get to be Top Dog. Congratulations! And that dynamic happens not just in race but in many different ways. It's like the male-female dynamic.

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When you're taking chances, you know it's not going to please everybody.

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People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

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You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.

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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.

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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.

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I would consider myself more a passionate centrist.

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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.

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It's a challenge to do satire when the thing you're satirizing is almost beyond satire, but I think that's a challenge for everybody.

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I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.

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As a culture, we've all agreed with the opinion that the world should be seen in a certain way, so at 'The Nightly Show,' our chief mission was to disagree with that premise. And to see the world in a way that may not make everybody comfortable. And to present it with a cast of people who don't always get to have a voice on that.

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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.

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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

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