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

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

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

I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.

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.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

I really do know football.

People challenge my nerd cred all the time. I just show them the photo of me winning my middle-school science fair, wearing my Casio calculator watch and eyeglasses so big they look like they can see the future.

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.

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

I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

I like grown up comedy.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

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

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.

It's very hard when you love someone very much to also start to realize that maybe you want different things for your lives.

Marriage is hard. I'm not gonna lie.

One thing about creativity is, when you feel confident and respected, you're more likely to pitch more interesting stuff because you're not as precious with it. You feel like, 'This is going to land, and I'm going to be supported in this.'

The whole principle of coming out is that everyone knows someone who's gay. The minute someone comes out, no one can be a bigot, because someone they love is gay.

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.