"Such a proud moment of professionalism. You work for years crafting cogent satirical essays and the thing that everybody remembers is me making love to a Chiquita and bursting into laughter. What you can't see off camera is Jon started laughing first. And then I'm weak. As much as I want to make the audience laugh, I really want to make Jon laugh."
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Entertainment Weekly interview, August 13, 2004, on his character break during the infamous Prince Charles sketch on The Daily Show.
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