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I feel privileged that I’ve been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.

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Post 9/11, brown people had this force pushing us together. It’s like we’re all being looked at with fear and suspicion; we’re all being targeted, so how do you support yourself and your communities?

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Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don’t like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election’s the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn’t feel important.

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After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.

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I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.

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January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I’ve been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ and a path to a professional comedy career.

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Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I’ve expressed myself since I was 17.

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Seattle is a place I’ve lived only a couple of years, but I feel like I’ve been adopted by this city. It’s like a hug. I’ve been recognized on planes, in the airport and by cabdrivers. I don’t get that anywhere else in the country.

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The words we use have weight. Whether it’s in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that’s why we choose the words we use – that’s the whole point of comedy.

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I’m not a politician, I’m not an ideologue, I’m not an organizer anymore. I’m a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can’t force that feeling.

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When you see a comedian on stage, the best comedians make it feel like a conversation. But it’s not. We have very little interest in what an audience has to say during a performance. Being a stand-up comedian, you’re an egomaniac to some degree. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say, apparently. That’s not how real relationships work.

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