I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

There's nothing I won't attempt.

I don't get very involved in the L.A. scene. When you do get invited out, you are expected to be on all the time. It's just wearying.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

I don't see myself as a stand-up comic doing cynical, mean-spirited or disrespectful stuff. I'm very aware that I don't like to disrespect people too much.

Personally, I think any more than two or three kids is not a family, it's a litter.

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.