You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about racism.

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.

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.

What am I unbiased about? Let's see. I don't think about being unbiased, at all. With the entertainment industry, there was a point at which I felt like I had to be not only pro-myself but anti-others.

There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like this - and it really is hard to break through that. I never was doing it that way.

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

I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when you were a kid. Or something your parents did.