I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.

Does 'interesting' mean something different in the scientific field than it does in normal life?

I am a tiny, neurotic man, standing in the back of the room throwing tomatoes at the chalk board. And that's really it. And what we do is we come in in the morning and we go, "Did you see that thing last night? Aahh!" And then we spend the next 8 or 9 hours trying to take this and make it into something funny.

Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time.

People see me on the 'Daily Show' or 'About a Boy'. But the reality is that I only got into this business to do standup comedy.

When you make 'The Daily Show', it's usually not for a laurel, it's for a dart.