I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

There's a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females.

I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

As a woman of color you have little more permission to go deeper and question things because your identity, in a way, is a shield. But if you come at it from a minority status, my person, who I am, softens the blow of whatever it is that I'm saying, because I am that.

Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it's actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.

As a comedian you are making yourself vulnerable in order to make others happy.