In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie roles you wanna pick. I think if you've got an interesting life, you wanna do interesting movies about interesting things.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

What!? You tell people that, I won't get no more black movies?