Michelle Obama

You don't want to get the speech early, you know?

That'd be terrible.

And so, I think my mom really got comfortable when

I think it was like when I got hired at Daily Show.

Yeah, Daily Show.

And not even the first year of Daily Show because I think for her, I would imagine one job at a show was like another job at a show.

But I think once I had been there a little while and she saw that it was really stable and steady and that I was doing other things on top of it and I was taking care of myself and everything, then that's when she was like, oh, okay, like...

I think she was always, you know, she was definitely always supportive.

It was more just that mom thing of like, I want you to be all right.

I don't want you to do anything rash or like dumb or put all your eggs in one basket or something like that.

But yeah, I think it was really a couple of years into Daily Show.

You know, I had been on a show now before, but it's such a collaborative process and it's such a

it's such a great group of people.

They took me in really, really open and really helpful as I was trying to learn how best to craft things for the show.

And so I think that that was the biggest change because when I was at Tonight Show, I was on monologue.

And so you're just writing jokes all day, pitching jokes all day and everything.

And at Daily Show, it became much more collaborative and you were

part of a team effort that was all coming together to make two really great acts of television.

I was learning more about how to think about television and how to think about what I see in my head that I need to put on the paper to communicate with the person that I won't be in the room with later to make sure that this thing comes together and have more of a holistic mindset for how a show is made rather than just pitching my

one joke and then it being like life or death, if it gets on or not, you know, like you just see, you see how you fit into a piece of the puzzle there.