You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

Every television show you go on is a choice.

I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.

To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space - that sort of thing.

It's really not that hard. If I do a Tonight Show, it's six or seven minutes. If I do a concert, it's 90 minutes. If I do an interview, that's 15 minutes. So by the end of the day I've done three hours worth of work.

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.