Dizzee Rascal Quotes

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.

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

We were the guys on the other side. It was hilarious.

You're required to be outspoken in journalism, and in television you're exposed anyway, because everyone watches it.

ESPN takes itself very seriously, but for some reason, I'm allowed to be the court jester.

It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.

I'm working on Leno. He's from my home state, Massachusetts. And my home country, Italy. I said, 'Hey, Jay, why don't you have me on your show? Afraid I'll be funnier than you?'

I have the humor of a 9-year-old boy, and sometimes I've had laughing fits on-air.

I did anything that would get me on the air.

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.

I started doing a half-hour Sunday night talk show on college radio station KUNV. That excited me more than anything I'd ever done. I went through the Yellow Pages to find people who seemed interesting. I'd goof on these people, but they were so excited to be on the radio that they didn't even notice.

I love radio and have done a little bit for years - since 'Workers' Playtime' in the 1950s. It's also a good springboard for comedians.

It's very complicated to literally put your family on TV.

I never considered game show host as a career, but it's fun because I get to inject some of my comedy into it.

With '2 Dope Queens,' with stand-up, and also with 'Sooo Many White Guys,' the interview stuff that I do, I really am a fan first.

I never wanted to be on TV.

Broadcasting keeps you relevant.

My bag is acting or getting into an amusing situation and then sharing my amusement.

At first, when my agent told me, 'They want you to do an interview, a piece for '60 Minutes,' I was like, 'What is '60 Minutes?''

If you are funny, people will like you. A lot of advertising is based on this simple rule. The Tory MP Boris Johnson has benefited a lot from it.

I know I'm more on television, and I'm more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

One thing I never thought I would get to do is end up on 'The Daily Show,' not once, but twice.