It's pretty insane. And I think there's a collective excitement about this, it's a spot of positivity and hope and some good news, so it feels nice to be associated with that. But I also feel like such a lazy cheater, because I didn't do anything. I'm not running. I don't have to do anything but be the same fool I was. She's doing all the hard work.

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I like comedy as a group sport.

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groups comedy sports

And in Improvisation there is one hard and fast rule, and that rule is known as "Yes And." The term YES AND: to say yes, and not just yes, but to add information. In the adding of information you don't negate the other persons idea - but you build on it.

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information add ideas

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

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calm air want

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

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would-be mother children

I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

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choices goal writing

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

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done feels people

The thing you can do better than anyone else is love your children, because they're your children.

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parent love-you children

When I first moved to New York, someone who thought they knew more than I did said: "You have to always look like you know where you're going when you get out of the subway."

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subway new-york looks

Honestly, because it's my third, I feel like I've been pregnant for like six years, seriously.

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honestly six years

I like being a funny lady. I think theres nothing sexier than a funny lady.

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thinking

I feel like I come from a smaller off shoot of black people because I am mixed. People say I’m African American but that doesn’t include the other half of me.

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african-american black people

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

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drag-queen drag queens

I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have.

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sleep writing song

I don't look my best when I wake up! But I do feel beautiful when I'm tired and happy and I've had a good laugh and a glass of champagne.

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tired glasses beautiful

There are days when I wonder why my mom couldn't be here to see this.

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my-mom mom wonder

Lord knows I had what you could call many fashion Don'ts in my day.

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fashion lord knows

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

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ancestry lovely guilt

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

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baffled children people

Before I had children, I was - everything about my life was devoted to "Saturday Night Live."

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saturday night children

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

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disappointment want years