The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work.
タグ: ideas, know, character, work

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I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.
タグ: like, college, great, man
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
タグ: facts, motto, you, truth
Who really wants to be themselves when they're teenagers?
タグ: themselves, wants, really, who
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
タグ: newspaper, like, school, poetry
I don't perceive my role as a newsman at all. I'm a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.
タグ: stem, open, jokes, you, me
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