I was doing sketches that were funny but socially irresponsible. I felt I was deliberately being encouraged and I was overwhelmed.
Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
If you don’t have the right people around you and you’re moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.
When I’m on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that’s the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.
Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you’re interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.
Constantly take inventory of what’s important to you.
Where I’m from? A little town called none of yo god damn business.
There’s something about doing stand-up that’s cathartic.
There’s a lot of people who don’t want anything from me but to laugh and have a good time. You see them at the show and they like – they dress up to come see your show and stuff. And they pack these auditoriums and it’s a lot of fun, man. It’s like, this is how I started, and it’s still fun for me.
The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.
The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
If you’re Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up – that’s an awful thing. But to see that speculation in people, it’s gotta sting a little bit.
All white people talk about when they get high is other times that they got high.
I’m happier in the way a guy gets happier when he starts to mature. It doesn’t make things easier, but I’m so much better at handling them.
Why don’t you click your heels three times and go back to Africa.
New white people, you can’t scare these white people, I tried.
No one wants to get their ass beat to a soundtrack.
Is this the 5:00 Free Crack Giveaway?
I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.