After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

A comedy club is a place where you work out material, you're trying material.

The only acting you ever see at the Oscars is when people act like they’re not mad they lost. Nicole Kidman was smiling so wide, she should have won an Emmy at the Oscars for her great performance. I was like, "If you’d done that in the movie, you’d have won an Oscar, girl."

When you become a comedian a lot of stuff that made you laugh before just stops. You stop watching your old cartoons you used to watch. You stop reading the funnies. It's like working at a strip club. You don't come home and turn on the Playboy Channel.

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

You know those guys that go to the strip club at the daytime? If you're at a strip club, and the sun is out, you got some problems!

Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit.