There's so much you can achieve with a launching pad like stand-up comedy. You can literally go from acting to hosting to being a personality.

My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

I'm trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, 'I'm different. I'm not just a comedian.' I'm trying to become a rock star.

I can't cook, but I can make a turkey and cheese sandwich like nobody else.

The best feeling in the world is seeing the benefits and rewards of hard work.

It's very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.