My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

My career has been my craziest adventure.

I can't complain about my career, that's for sure.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

The word 'Spanx' was funny. It made people laugh. No one ever forgot it.

I joke that one of the rare times Egyptians identify as African is when the national soccer squad is playing in the African Cup of Nations - and preferably winning it.

When I think about Plastic Man, he was genuinely the first funny super hero. I'm obviously attracted to that. There's also this great mixture of tragedy in there, too, that I love. The humor comes from a place of pain.

My grandmother taught me that accomplishments meant less than what you left behind. I started to ask myself what impact my comedy would have on people's lives. And that changed my act. I got cleaner. I stopped talking about generic stuff like airplane peanuts and started speaking the truth about my gift.