Comcast may not regret firing Jeff Zucker. but he wants credit for a few of his wise moves, according to a New York magazine interview with the CNN Worldwide boss as he approaches his two year mark.

Zucker tells the magazine’s Gabriel Sherman that while he accepts he could not fix NBC’s prime time schedule, he did grow the cable division under his watch and the company bought NFL Sunday Night Football, along with Illumination Studios, the creator of film franchise “Despicable Me.”

“I’m not taking credit for these things. But if things happen on your watch both bad and good, you have to judge it collectively,” Zucker said.

“The one thing we could not get fixed was NBC prime time. Fact. You want me to go scream it on the street?”

In a wide ranging interview, Zucker talks about arrows from Jon Stewart, and criticism from Vice boss, Shane Smith.

l  On Stewart: “We’re on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He’s doing one seven-minute monologue four nights a week with 20 writers.”

l  On Vice: “I don’t take Vice seriously,” he said. “They produce 15 hours of TV a month.”

l  On Ben Silverman: “When I hired Ben, every CEO in Hollywood called to say what a brilliant move it was,” said Zucker. “Bob Iger, Leslie Moonves, Peter Chernin. They all thought it was brilliant. Turns out it wasn’t.”

Commenting on what his next role in the media business could be, Zucker added: “I’d love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the New York Times. Would I consider a run for political office? Yes.”