You're never going to see me playing a buffoon.

I came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It's still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That's why I'm so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.