The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you know what I mean?

At the end of the day, my career is not going to be judged by one or two or three moments in time. It'll be judged by the longevity of it.

Guys like Rogan literally want to ruin my career. That's unbelievably cruel and hurtful, and I never want to be that guy.

I never want to forget that my job is to make people laugh.

Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

Trump's hobbled vocabulary is now the incontestable stuff of comedy: not just how few his words but how narrow their range, from boastful to irked and back again. For satirists and impressionists, a president who addresses the American people in abbreviated tweetspeak is a gift.