Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.

Do you have any idea what it's like when you try and make home porn? My husband and I tried it. We looked like charging hippos. Best to leave it to the pros.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.

I was this weird little bookish giant.

Yes, I do get recognized in public. It's pretty nice.

I might not agree with myself in a year.

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.

A lot of people try to control how you access gaming. You know, they're trying to prevent people from buying games.

After 40, your chances of getting pregnant are between two and eight percent, and in my particular case, they were less than five percent.

And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So imagine, if you will, being 6 feet tall by third grade, so essentially being a living maypole.

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.

Bravery is the engine of change.

But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.

Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.'

Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.

Dartmouth is a small school with high-caliber teaching. Our classes were all taught by professors, not teaching assistants. I felt like that was a school where I could make a big splash. The opportunities would be grander and more robust for me there than at a school with 40,000 students.

Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

Everybody has those stories that make them wince when they think about them silently. But as soon as you tell that story, it becomes a little bit less cringe-inducing.

For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.

For someone to say that marriage is only about procreation is a joke. I didn't marry my husband to have children. I married my husband because I love my husband.

For the record, I'm a clinical workaholic.

God, I mean I had so many people tell me, 'What you're doing doesn't work.' I used to have to get on stage and apologize for talking the way that I speak.

I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby.

I am absolutely a Giants fan and I'm a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.

I am black, and there's no getting around that, but being black doesn't define every aspect of my life.

I am constantly re-evaluating my goals and trying to strike items from my to-do list that aren't critical.

I believe in hard work. I think that everything flows out of that.

I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.

I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.

I can't control what's fair and unfair. I can't control the nature of the business or the nature of society or the nature of the world, but what I can control is how I choose to see the world and what I choose to put back into it.

I can't say that there's been some big change during my career where all of a sudden everything's totally colorblind.

I didn't mind being in a school with a small African-American population. The African-American-community was very tight, and that was great. But I also wanted to interact with other types of folks.

I don't think of myself as a role model, but I do feel like, for women out there who are trying to figure out who they are, the most important choice to make is to live a life that's true to who you are inside. And let your ideas and your heart and your mind drive your fashion choices.

I feel if you believe in equality, you have to believe in it for everybody. And that's the way I've always lived my life.

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

I hated, when I was a kid, being told that 'Black people don't do that.' And the white kids at school didn't accept me because I was black, and the black kids in my neighborhood didn't accept me because they thought I thought I was white.

I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.

I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this awesome 'Halo: Reach' backpack. Usually, when you get stuff like that, it either ends up in the garage or going to charity. But I walk around with that 'Halo: Reach' backpack all the time, and I drink out of my 'Halo: Reach' bottle every day.

I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.