Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information about [ biological mother]. So you have to build a mythos around yourself. And so my mythos included me not being wanted or me being a wretched person, which is just great fertilizer for comedy.

I'm racist against non-black people.

We've decided [with Jordan Peele] that we need to be on the Internet for a little bit of time every day to figure out what's going on. It feels like we're working. It feels like you're all typing and you're searching.

[Adoption] could turn you into an exquisite comedian. Ask Richard Pryor's ghost.

For me, as a child, I certainly thought that there were more black people in the world than white people.

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

I want people to say, "Oh my God, I'm laughing out loud at television."