The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these guys were scary. They may have done….

When I was a teenager, black pride became newly popular again. Suddenly a lot of black people were wearing the fake kente cloth and red black and gre….

Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be la….

Portland is often trumpeted as being one of America's coolest, hippest cities. I've been to Portland many times, and I'm always like, "Yeah it's cool….

I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when you were a kid. Or somethin….

I'm most biased about how white people have to learn to shut up when the conversation of racism comes up. White people have to learn to listen. Wheth….

Comedy is like expensive cheese. Well, it's like cheese, in general. Everybody likes what they like, and everything they don't like, they think is th….

I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know….

A lot of comics claimed to be political comedians when George W. Bush was in office just by calling him an idiot. For me, Obama is actually more inte….

I feel like you can share as many jokes as you want to because no joke you do on Twitter is ever gonna be so big on Twitter, for the most part, that ….

I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity..

You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself..

It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general..

The best version of comedy is when you can get to an issue where, at some point, you're not firmly on one side or the other, and you can see both sid….

There's an elitism that comes out with the entertainment industry. I'll talk about some shows, but I'm not gonna say that you're dumb for watching on….

We could do something set in the 21st century, where I travel around to lots of different places and we talk to different ethnicities and lots of dif….

As a person of color, you're in a PhD level racism class, every day. Every day, I'm in a deep racism seminar. And I'm not saying that white people ar….

What am I unbiased about? Let's see. I don't think about being unbiased, at all. With the entertainment industry, there was a point at which I felt l….

You might not agree with something, but it doesn't mean you don't need to listen to it. White people have to accept that they don't always know about….

If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that..

There is a linear way in which black comedians are expected to talk about race by all audiences - black people are like this, white people are like t….