I wanted to look right. I remember a review - a very positive one - in The New York Times that said I was so good in the role [Earl Mills] that I "even managed to overcome a terrible red wig. " I wanted to write her and tell her about the agony I'd gone through with the perm, but I thought better of it.
If I were a bad black comic I would name my special, Yo mama, and other stories of a lack of self awareness.