The rules may seem obvious but when you think about them they're not. For somebody who has my job they're not as obvious as one would think..

I think that [Eddie Murphy's famous "White Like Me"] is probably the first time I thought, "Oh. Being black is different. That is a totally different….

Whoever has the most at stake should have the most power..

If there are older black people in the audience that I can see I will not say the n-word. I know they grew up with a different meaning..

If the word police want to come and get me, they can come and get me. If someone wants to blog about me, fine. The bloggers can come and get me. I cl….

I'm making fun of midwestern homophobia [in the joke], but I'm still saying faggot. And almost every month as I'm doing that joke it gets five percen….

People get way too much credit at funerals..

With comics it's very close, like, "I don't want to say anything onstage that I wouldn't say offstage." Or vice versa. I say "faggot" in my special a….

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side..

I just think [Gangster Party Line] is funny and stupid and all the dudes in it are real dudes. It's just a funny construction..

Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of slavery is such a base impuls….

I think it's naïve to think white people aren't singing along directly!.

There are words that I wouldn't say because they hurt people's feelings. I just happen to be a white guy who writes for a lot of black comedians but ….

[Robert Smigel] is one of the greatest comedy writers in the last 50 years. "TV Funhouse" and Triumph and all those sketches.He's really unique, and ….

The victory of the show is in the writing. Coming up with sketches and stand-up bits. The rest is just hitting buttons on a machine more or less..

Brent Weinbach made [Gangster Party Line].I guess I saw it when it first came out. And that is so goddamn funny to me. The guys are real dudes and th….

Movies are grander, with (in my experience) more heavy weight chefs in the kitchen: the studio, the producers, the writers. All of them get to weigh ….

Models never say, "I'm hot." They say, "Look at these clothes." Whereas, with comedy, you have to say, "I'm hot.".

There was a thing in the Andy Kaufman movie that Jim Carrey [Man On The Moon] about how he would do it. I didn't even see the movie. I read the scrip….

When I say the n-word, black people are clear that I'm on their side. And it's not disingenuous - I am on black people's side, clearly..

I guess I like people doing roasts in public. That's my thing..