When people make judgments they close all the possibility around them.
Everybody puts on airs, regardless of race.
Ricky Gervais changed our lives. And Mitch Hedberg, who we're like, "Oh, that's funny to me on a level I don't think I understand. But I'm clearly pleased by it beyond something that my brain's figured out. " He was amazing.
You hold precious what you create for yourself in your life that makes you comfortable.
You can not have comedy unless people are behaving badly. You can't have it.
There's a sketch where we're playing two terrorists in a cave, and my terrorist is very frustrated as to why we haven't flown a plane into a building in 13 years.
My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing [biological mother], my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing and very emotional.
I just try to let myself really focus on the work that's ahead of me and what my job is and how I bring something to life.
I am very much in the instant-gratification camp. I am too much of an actor not to be. I am used to doing my work and having someone comment immediately. So I think that I'm a little hooked on that gratification structure.
Find your life perfect and deal with what emerges.
Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.