I grew up watching British television because I lived so close to Canada.

The fact of the matter is, you can't do comedy unless someone is behaving badly. Otherwise, it's not a comedy.

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.

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.

If I could just get over my issues of wanting people to like me.

I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

It was very important thousands of years ago to categorize things. I can eat that plant, I can't eat that plant. Or this tribe, not that tribe. We don't have to do that anymore - we have processed food now!