Feels right to have a woman follow President Obama, doesn't it?

I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get. They think I'm sassy. Apparently, I think I'm nicer than I really am.

People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?

Let's give it up for the Secret Service. I don't want to be too hard on those guys. You know, because they're the only law enforcement agency that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.

What can I say about Brian Williams. Nothing, because I work for NBC.

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.

I'm also the first straight woman to host this in 20 years, so, we finally made it, straight people.

You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.

I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just dont take them very often.

I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred Armisen laugh at a scene or Bill Hader or Seth Meyers give me a compliment.

We cannot control how others treat us but we can control the way we react to them.

I feel like I've got it together when things are going well with my family.

I wanted to get from 4th street to 8th... Then I remembered Einstein postulating that parallel lines eventually meet. They're dredging my car from Lake Michigan as we speak.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Until I was about 14, I was a fat boy, or at least I looked like a fat boy. I think that being funny was a bit of a defence mechanism for me, so I ended up being a bit of a joker.

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.

I'm convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.