I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

I've always had an interest in the fashion side of pop culture.

They should."

"Should be like a wood bee," she said.

It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies or TV shows that served as a rote substitute for conversation and bound them like shut-in twins, each other's best and, most often, only audience.

The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.