I don't care if my opinion falls on the right or the left. I'm more of what I call a passionate centrist. I just believe what I believe. I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.

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Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.

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I love writing family stories.

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You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

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When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.

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The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

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I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.

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"Keep it 100" means keeping it 100 percent real. It comes from the expression ... "keeping it real," which means you are being completely honest and 100 percent real means you are really being honest, which is kind of a contradiction of sorts. You're either being honest or you're not.

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Even though you're in charge you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.

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I do believe that the Mormon Church is at kind of an awakening, in two different ways: More people are becoming aware of it, and it's becoming a force to be reckoned with. There's a lot of Mormon converts globally.

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My basic political philosophy is, I ain't mad at that. Which basically means I don't have to have a strong opinion about everything. I'm too tired most of the time. Why do I have to take a stand on everything? Sometimes I'm just not mad at it. Like, What do you think about gay marriage? I ain't mad at you, you're gay and you're married: I ain't mad at you, go do it.

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You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

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I've always been sort of entrepreneurial. ... I felt that I needed to learn how to write and produce so I could write my own thing and not worry about Hollywood finding me.

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Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

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When I was born there were still different drinking fountains you had to drink out of.

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I grew up in California. I was outside of the city, not directly in it. So I did have an experience of the sky, but for me, it was the idea of space exploration that fueled my interest. I grew up in that age of the astronauts, and I was fascinated that we could leave the Earth.

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When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.

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It was tough when people would say, "Aren't you so excited?" about the new show and I couldn't really say, "Yes, well, I'm going through a divorce right now, too."

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Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

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I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

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I don't have that kind of Southern experience, of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy. I come more from the guilt-ridden, neurotic type of [ - ] I have more in common with the Jewish brand of comedy.

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