There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

And in Improvisation there is one hard and fast rule, and that rule is known as "Yes And." The term YES AND: to say yes, and not just yes, but to add information. In the adding of information you don't negate the other persons idea - but you build on it.

Before I had children, I was - everything about my life was devoted to "Saturday Night Live."

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.