There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

A celebrity, whatever I am, you get cut off sometimes from people just by circumstance.

I just like seeing people. I just like meeting people. I like finding out new walks of life and new ideas.

Comedians by and large are some of the most sensitive people on earth. Even if they're socially callous.