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.

Nicole Byer

Categorized in : You Me I Am Black

What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won't be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.

good you cake life

My favorite thing from Dairy Queen is a Peanut Buster Parfait, which is: fudge at the bottom, vanilla ice cream, some peanuts, fudge, peanuts, ice cream, fudge, and it's layered. But I also really like peanut butter cups, so I'll put peanut butter cups in there.

queen some like ice-cream

Let's just let funny people be funny.

just funny-people funny people

Putting a wig on and a costume and doing a wacky character is always fun.

doing always fun character

I moved to New York and went to a performing arts college, but it wasn't until UCB that I started performing on the regular, figuring out how I'm funny, why I'm funny, and how to play with an audience.

new college play funny

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.'

something style time travel

I'm not sassy all day every day. I have levels and feelings.

every-day day sassy feelings

Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there's no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response.

say something you safety

When I was little, I used to love eating peanut butter sandwiches with tomatoes, and they would have to be on potato bread. I loved them. It's so weird, and I can't imagine eating it now, but I used to love eating them. It's a lot of flavors.

weird loved eating love

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.'

job bad me people

I've said it before, but I'll say it again because you can't say it enough: Your skin is beautiful - dark, light, in the middle, whatever. Brown is beautiful. Your hair is beautiful. If you wear a weave, it's beautiful. If you choose to be natural, that's beautiful. Also, you are enough.

you light hair beautiful

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would look people in the face and be like, 'Your snake cake's not good.'

face dreams good people

It's easier to cast yourself in something you've written because you know your voice.

yourself know you voice

It's so hard for me to insult people.

me insult hard people

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.'

day you hot people

If someone is going to say something nasty to me about my body, that means my body is powerful. If you really stopped your day because you needed to say something to me, that's power.

day me you power

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.

you body change want

Be comfortable in your skin.

skin your comfortable

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

director tell me casting

If someone goes, 'Can you be sassier?' I go, 'I can be my kind of sassier. I'm not gonna put a voice on. The voice I have is my voice.'

someone you i-can voice