A biography for Mo Roccahasn’t been written yet.
“I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.”
“Look, not embracing the 'Today' show is soooo yesterday.”
“If there's one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that, right or wrong, they hate the press.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I bruise like a grape.”
“I know a lot about a few things - mostly useless things.”
“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.”
“Something that came as a shock to me is that we do not have a constitutional right to vote. And that's not just a fun little historical factoid. It actually has huge ramifications. It's the reason our system is so decentralized - in other words, chaotic.”
“Homemade sweaters are always itchy.”
“It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.”
“I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.”
“One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.”
“I am a kamikaze gadfly.”
“I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.”
“I think that Obama is very cool. And I think he's clever, and I think he can be witty. But I don't think he's funny in either the way that Reagan was funny - or John McCain and Dick Cheney are both funny in that ruthless, kind of mean way.”
“I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies.”
“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.”
“Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore?”
“I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.”