Michelle Obama

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.

And the people that are there, like, you know, the people who have always, um, supported me and, and been very like, um,

nurturing and even how I get to a story or how I tell a joke or something like that.

What do you mean?

So I think that there are some times when you have a political story, especially a story that no one knows anything about, right?

So we're going to talk about today.

what's happening in the Congo.

And then as an American audience, you're not necessarily up on what's happening in the Congo.

So we have to tell you everything that's happening as quickly as possible and then bring you up to speed so that we can get to the thing that happened that might be funny or is really important or interesting, right?

And so I think that there is a way that I try to approach a story angle by angle that I think, at least when I look back at it, they were very...

once again, nurturing in helping me craft that to be something for the show.

So it wasn't just a long aside.

It was like how we were going to tell some of the story, like a piece of the story.

And so that really opened my mind towards, even in my own standup, how to talk about something that people had no frame of reference for and how to make a take and an approach more universal.

And so I think that that was like,