David Pierce

Where it's like, I could settle into this idea that I'm just here every day and that's going to be enough.

And I think you see a lot of creators do that.

That it truly is like quantity over quality in a very real way.

I'm desperate to avoid that trap.

Yeah.

Yeah, that idea of like, I'm just going to make the best thing I can today actually feels very freeing.

Because it's like, it's not, this is not required to be the best thing I've ever made in my entire life every single time.

But it is required to be the best I could do this time.

And I think there's something nice about that.

It's like, I'm obligated to try my hardest.

And like, this is what Jon Stewart always said about The Daily Show, I remember, was like...

The best thing about this is if we do a horrible job, there's another show tomorrow and it's going to be fine.

And the worst part is if we do an unbelievable job, there's another show tomorrow and we have to go do it again.

There's something about that that I actually love as a constraint.

I think about this on some simple levels, like how much do I talk about my kids, right?

And like, should our audience know a lot about what my kids are up to?

And I think...

that line is sort of ever changing for me.

Like for a long time, I didn't say their names on the show.

And I like, I've gotten more comfortable with that or like, so little things, but then there's like, uh, at the beginning of a bunch of our episodes for the longest time, there's always just been a little opener.