Growing up in the Midwest, Boston, and Alabama, I didn't know any Puerto Ricans... at least, I didn't know if I knew any Puerto Ricans. The only Puerto Rican that I had ever even heard of was Juan Epstein, one of the students from the classic 1970s sitcom 'Welcome Back, Kotter.'

As a black man, I actually had naturally sort of comedic curiosity about the Klan.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

The Olympics are great, but they only truly mean something when the moments that come out of them are bigger than the individual sports.

It's funny: when I started playing bass in 1984, you had guys like Paul Simonon fron the Clash, John Paul Jones, Lemmy, and Nikki Sixx was the head guy in Motley Crue, and you had all this post-punk stuff like Magazine and Killing Joke where the bass sort of lead the way. Not that I picked it to sort of be a main dude, but it intrigued me.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

Fake buckteeth make a joke that you don't have to make any effort on, even if you're not a funny person.

In television, there are so many things between you making a joke and the audience seeing it. It's like an assault course.