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I'm very silly.
I've lived an interesting life.
I'm generally a positive person.
I am surprisingly very sensitive.
I'm not mean. I can't do a roast.
I love potato bread. It's so good.
Let's just let funny people be funny.
It's so hard for me to insult people.
I wear a lot of vintage, thrifted stuff.
I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.
It's not a weakness to admit that you're wrong.
Commercial auditions can be pretty humiliating.
I love UCB Chelsea. There is, to me, no stage like it.
No, I was not into cake fails before hosting 'Nailed It.'
Comedy is subjective, so if you don't like it, that's fine.
I don't think anyone gets into comedy to host a baking show.
I'm not sassy all day every day. I have levels and feelings.
The way I toe the line with comedy is I run jokes past people.
In school, no one teaches you to look for things that are right for you.
Putting a wig on and a costume and doing a wacky character is always fun.
I'm not a baker, and I don't know anything about baking, and I don't claim to.
I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.
I get it - there are very few black female actresses who have been given chances.
My mom was a really positive, jovial person, so I try to keep it upbeat like that.
During my 20s, I truly said 'yes' to everything, whether it was a good idea or not.
I really like Beyonce. She's a perfectionist who works really hard on each and every performance.
I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.
I don't know if there is too much bacon! I used to have bacon parties. That's how much I love bacon.
Dogs are very strange, but they're wonderful and they love to cuddle, and their breath is so stinky!
Feeling supported when you are doing comedy is the best way to make comedy - at least, that's how I think.
I hate that there's such an emphasis on women in comedy. Are women OK? Are they just as funny as men? Yes!
I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized.
I love pigs. I think they're very cute. I really want a pet pig, but those micro pigs, they don't stay micro.
I know Jonathan Van Ness from comedy, and he's got this wonderful show on Funny or Die called 'Gay of Thrones.'
I was in a Rite Aid... and fell into a Christmas tree display. None other than Shia LaBeouf helped me out of it.
I don't preach body positivity - I'm just okay with the body I'm in and say, 'I love me, so you should love you.'
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would look people in the face and be like, 'Your snake cake's not good.'
Red Lobster reminds me of my dad because he would always get coupons and be like, 'We're going to treat ourselves.'
Typecasting is a thing, but when it involves race, it narrows the roles available to an almost comically small amount.
On '90 Day Bae,' Marcy Jarreau and I recap '90 Day Fiancee' because it's just the most insane, funniest show on television.
I am an archetype. There's the fat, sassy, black friend, you know? That's an archetype that exists, but that's not truly me.
Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there's no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response.
My style is like, if I were to time travel to the '80s or '90s, I would fit in, but they would be like, 'Something's off about her.'
What I needed to do was carve out parts for me, roles for me that weren't just the sidekick, where I got to be the lead, because that's breaking through.
If you want to change your body, that's well within your means to do that, but if you don't want to change your body, you need to accept it and embrace it.
I've always been a mediocre student, so I never won an award in school. I'm not very athletic, so I've never won a sports award. So, I'm a mediocre person.
I've done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I've been asked to 'be blacker.' That's code for sassier, more ghetto, more neck rolls and snaps.
I was a server for a while, and I was a very bad one. So when people tipped me well, I felt like it was like, 'Let's get her out of here so she can get a new job.'
I just woke up one day was like, 'People know you're fat whether you have a cardigan on or your arms are out, so why not just let your arms be out because you're hot.'
To see another fat girl on television, I think, is really powerful. I'm happy to open the doors for a younger generation of fat, black women to be visible, to be seen, to be heard.