You must study their deliveries, their use of their bodies, their timing, and their use of audio and vocal effects.

I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.

Evaluate every performance on: stage presence, concentration, delivery, material and lessons learned.

Being a professional comedian is doing it right and good, when you don't feel like it.

Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, 'Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def'?

A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.

This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one.