“I've always run by the hierarchy of "If not funny, interesting. If not interesting, hot. If not hot, bizarre. If not bizarre, break something."”

—  Jon Stewart

Rolling Stone interview http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/tran/1990/95_0126rolling.html, January 26, 1995

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