Mo Rocca Quotes (23 Quotes)


    It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

    I can't be everything to everyone. Send me your specs.


    I'm going to try to start a floor fight.

    It has been difficult on my family -- my 8-year-old daughter, Sally. You know how vicious second-graders can be about the Daily News TV column.


    Once I started working for 'The Daily Show,' then real news shows wanted me.

    It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

    The most important thing is to write material that YOU think is funny. If you don't think it's funny, but you're convinced that other people will think it is, well they won't.

    I think that Michael Jackson needs to be judged on the content of his character, not on the bleached mocha latte light color of his skin.

    Honestly we never lied to people about who we were. Usually the wackier interviews came to pass because the interview subjects, aware that we were Comedy Central, just wanted to get their stories out.

    I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

    When it comes to war, we focus more on the mainstream coverage of the event, rather than the event itself. People dying is never funny. Protest puppets are always funny.

    The portrayal of these women as fun, loving, sexy, energetic oldsters is kind of a wonderful escapist fantasy of the realities of assisted living,

    Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

    George W. Bush and Al Gore are doing foreign-language tv ads. Two men who say very little in English are now saying absolutely nothing in Spanish.

    If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.

    It addresses a life-long concern, the risk of someone ruining your game. I just don't want you, 50 years down the road, to have your game killed by some guy with a shinier walker.


    No, no, no separate but equal... never the twain shall meet. And the pendulum kept swinging and it came to rest in the bastard hybrid known as the Daily Show.

    In comparison with a lot of her film acting, it's a lot more lifelike, a lot less stiff.

    It's one of my favorite things to do, watch TV and stretch. I'm so flexible. I can put my legs behind my head. I want to be the most flexible person in the world.

    Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.

    I think I've always sort of been conflicted and on the edge of something. I don't think I could do what I do if I wasn't on the edge.


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