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1. I always compartmentalized so many different things.
2. I’m not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
3. My white counterparts are always pushing the line, and they are fearless, so why can’t I do that, too?
4. Even though you’re in charge, you’re not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show. Look at comments about shows and tell me if I’m wrong. Look at shows like ‘The Walking Dead’ and the ownership that the audience has of that show.
5. A lot of my family on both sides have worked in education and nursing, and my grandmother was a nurse; my sister is a nurse, and her — my other sister’s daughter is going into nursing. There’s a lot of that in the family.
6. I do not look to Hollywood to give me character clues.
7. I think the term ‘fair reporting’ is overused when it comes to journalism. I think saying they want to report evenly is more accurate.
8. Maybe I’ll write an episode of ‘Black-ish’ about a guy being fired in late-night.
9. You are always, always overwhelmed by positive response because you know it can go either way.
10. The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they’re not brutalized by police is insane.
11. I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don’t mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
12. My joke is that three black people watch ‘The Daily Show’ at any given time. So if I’m watching it, that counts, and there’s only two left. It’s a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
13. When you have somebody like a Donald Trump — he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama’s Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
14. I’m actually a big fan of having all the different types of voices on television. I think it gives people a nice little buffet that they can just pick and choose how they want to get their news and entertainment, I guess.
15. MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
16. Not everybody’s gonna get your vision.
17. 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.
18. ‘Westworld’ is bizarre. I don’t know what to think of ‘Westworld.’
19. Remember, MTV would only show white videos for a long time. Can you imagine that? That was the ’80s when that happened. It’s hard to even think of that now, you know?
20. We will see about Obama’s legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.