“I don't miss traveling and sleeping in a hotel every night. I mean that touring got really old. I did it for 15 years and I had no idea I was going to be a talk-show host, but I used to joke with the audience at the end of my set that someday I am going to make you come to me, and I'm not going to come to you anymore. And now they do come to me. So, I still get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say the things I want to say and comment on.”
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