Daily Show Quotes

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  Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

  Jon Stewart

  Death, Hope, Atheist

  "The Daily Show". www.imdb.com. 1996 - ....

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  If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

  Jon Stewart

  Motivational, Sticks, Hobbies

  "The Daily Show", January 22, 2009.

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• Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.

  Jon Stewart

  Graduation, Fall, Age

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

  Jon Stewart

  Networking, World, Internet Users

  "Reinventing Television". Interview with Thomas Gotez, www.wired.com. September 1, 2005.

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• There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

  Tom Brokaw

  Truth, Eight, Political

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• 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.

  John Mayall

  Counter Culture, Laughing, News

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• At first the difference will be in whatever atmosphere I bring into it. It's not going to be like, 'I really want to do The Daily Show and I'd love to turn it into an abstract musical.' I like the format and the chance to satirize the news.

  Jon Stewart

  Differences, Atmosphere, Musical

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• I care about politics, but I have a tough time making comedy out of it. I was so happy to have a chance to be on The Daily Show, and I think Jon Stewart's so funny... but mostly in my own comedy, I care about less relevant things.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Tough Times, Care

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• Working on The Daily Show, I co-produced all those field segments, and that's another huge thing.I probably did more than 100 field segments.

  Ed Helms

  Fields, Shows, Huge

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. June 3, 2009.

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• The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a 'Daily Show' photo already, of them signaling in this [Nazi salute] manner, as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis who braved physical threats against their lives to vote as if somehow these inked-fingered Republicans have something to do with that.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Vote, Republican, Nazi

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• Charlie Hebdo was and is not The Onion or "The Daily Show." This is a different kind of satire. Might I put it this way - less politically correct.

  Scott Simon

  Charlie Hebdo, Way, Different

  "Charlie Hebdo, The Licensed Anarchist Clowns Of French Society". "Weekend Edition Saturday", www.npr.org. January 2, 2016.

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• The Daily Show is one of the lowest-rated shows in the state of Alabama, so we decided to reach across the aisle and do a collection of field pieces about Alabama - to increase awareness of the show there, but also to learn about the politics, culture, and religion in Alabama.

  Hasan Minhaj

  Culture, Awareness

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students for about a year. I think I'd probably still be doing it now if I hadn't just randomly decided to go to a sketch group audition. That led to doing improv, which led to the Daily Show. But it was fun while it lasted.

  Rob Corddry

  Country, Fun, College

  "20Q Rob Corddry". Interview with Eric ­Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. September 22, 2014.

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• The Daily Show writers are incredibly smart and very well plugged-in but occasionally they would need me for certain specific things, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I completely know how to do that; I can solve that problem,and then I'd be like, 'Mom?

  Aasif Mandvi

  Mom, Smart, Needs

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I was a fan of "The Daily Show" I watched it,I never imagined being on it, but I figured I would just go down there and do my best Stephen Colbert impression.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Fans, Impression, Shows

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Careers, People

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• I was like, wow, this guy's [Donald Trump ] going to do well. And I remember people laughed at me. People were like, oh, you silly ignorant person who's just come to this world. You clearly shouldn't be at "The Daily Show" 'cause you don't know what you're talking about. And I was like, but I don't know. He seems like he connects with people. I can relate to him as a performer. I can see what tools he's using. He's good at riffing. He's good at taking the crowd on a journey. I can see what he's doing.

  Trevor Noah

  Silly, Journey, Talking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Daily Show was an incredible training ground for that kind of thing. It was all about discipline and generating material constantly.

  Ed Helms

  Discipline, Training, Kind

  Source: movies.about.com

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• [John McCain] didn't believe me. I think anybody who's been in a POW camp for five years can - take eight minutes on The Daily Show.

  Jon Stewart

  Believe, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The frustration of our [The Daily] show is- very much outside any parameters of the media or the government. We don't have access to these people, we don't have access. We don't go to dinners we don't have cocktail parties. We don't you know, you've seen what happens when one of us ends up at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, it doesn't end well.

  Jon Stewart

  Party, Frustration, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Eventually, somewhere - be it on the Internet or somewhere else - I will host some version of 'The Daily Show.'

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Somewhere Else, Host, Internet

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• Lastly, the ashes left behind,
  May daily show to move the mind,
  That to ashes and dust return we must:
  Then think, and drink tobacco.

  George Wither

  Moving, Thinking, Dust

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

  Bonnie Raitt

  Rising Up, Thank God, World

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• I have an iPad and I watch three things: 'The Daily Show,' '60 Minutes,' and 'Meet the Press.'

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Ipads, Watches, Three

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• 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.

  John Oliver

  Trying, Actors, Authority

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