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

I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.

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.

A black President? Now come on y'all, we got Clinton, that's close. He got negro tendencies.

Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

When you're first starting out, you want to keep making good movies. When you're young and you're black, you do a bad movie and you're through.

I get on stage and talk about different stuff in my life and what I've been through and what I think about the world. It's picking out highlights of things and how I became who I am and how my daddy raised me.