Mo Rocca Quotes

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Mo Rocca

Profession : Writer

Birth : January 28, 1969

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.

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I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

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A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

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One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

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

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I bruise like a grape.

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Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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I am a kamikaze gadfly.

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I still don't know how to cook and that's just unacceptable.

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I have a Keurig coffee maker, which is really kind of a luxury. It was given to me by an ex. I realized when I'm feeling sentimental, I'll gently, tenderly press the button. Then when I remember he dumped me, I punch it.

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Generally I get up at around 7. But oftentimes, I'll be lolling in bed a little bit earlier - sometimes as early as 5:45 - filing in my mind all the things I have to get done. Which is, of course, totally unproductive.

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