Trivia: when I was doing TV interviews, I sometimes had a little fun with the interviewing team while they were still setting up their equipment and obviously hadn't started recording (like I could see the tape slot on the TV camera still being open), and so I said things in a sincere voice like,

-- but you have to understand in this context, that I'm a politician. So it's never cheating if you don't get caught.

It was always fun to see them get stressed to get the recording started in case I would say something more like that on tape. :)