It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

Portland is often trumpeted as being one of America's coolest, hippest cities. I've been to Portland many times, and I'm always like, "Yeah it's cool and hip, but also, where are all the black people? Why is this city so cool and hip, and also keeping the black people away?"

As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people aren't taking that class, but they don't show up that often and they're auditing it.

If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.

A lot of comics claimed to be political comedians when George W. Bush was in office just by calling him an idiot. For me, Obama is actually more interesting comically, because not everybody can figure it out.

It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.