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

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

Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don't do your tag when it dies down, just move on.

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

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

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'?