That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

Tigers love pepper...they hate cinnamon.

You save 15 more minutes of sleep if you are a man and you don't have to shave.

It's not good for comedy to be like, 'Thanks for liking me'. Being popular is poison.

Element of surprise is really fun for me in comedy. I have to be surprised, and everything's been done.

I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.

When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, "Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.