I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.

I get it - there are very few black female actresses who have been given chances.

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'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.

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

Dan Aykroyd is a comedy icon and one of my idols of all time, but I also know that he's an incredibly great actor.

What I love about comedy is that it's unquestionably working. There are varying degrees of that, where there's something that makes you smile and is funny versus something that makes you hysterically laugh.