I was born in New York.
This whole urban rap thing needs to be pulled back some. The ghetto is being glorified, and there's nothing good about the ghetto except getting out of one.
It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.
Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don't do your tag when it dies down, just move on.
I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.
I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.
When I saw a sign on the freeway that said, "Los Angeles 445 miles," I said to myself, "I've got to get out of this lane. "
To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical.
I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.
It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them.