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

Why do people love Richard Pryor so much? 'Cause he had problems.

I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn't changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.

I think a lot of TV insults the audience.

I've introduced myself with comedy, and once you've introduced yourself as something, that's where people keep you. That's where people like to hold you.

When I started in the clubs, I had to work places where didn't nobody else want to work. I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.

My grandmother always told me how you start is how you finish.