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.

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

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.

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.

I have so much respect for what's funny.

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

That's the whole key to anything: Don't be afraid to fail. And is not afraid to fail.