I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.

If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.

I think maybe I became funny because as a kid, I was a Jew in a town of no Jews, and being funny just instinctively came about as a way to put people at ease around me.

I happen to think that there are already tons of perfectly good babies out there already born.