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

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.

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.

I solemnly swear not to talk about Hillary's appearance, because that is not journalism.

What are stories for if we don't learn from them?

Don’t criticize them

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

Voices in the darkness scream away my mental health, can I ask a question to help me save me from myself?

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.