Q: What's the first joke you ever wrote?
A: First joke i ever wrote probably had something to do with taking the song "If i were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof and changing the lyrics to "If I Were a Black Man." I switched out the Yiddle Diddles out for a word that begins with N that has done wonders for Michael Richard's career. Sadly, that is my best work to date.

Q: What is the source of your sense of humor?
A: Um. Impressions of Bill Cosby mainly. No, scratch that. Impressions of Eddie Murphy doing an impression of Bill Cosby.

Q: In school, were you the class clown or quiet nerd?
A: Class clown. I'm a loud mofo and I've always been one. I sometimes liked to think of myself as the Black Morris of my high school. See that?! I took Zach Morris and made it Black Morris! STILL GOT IT!

Q: Is it better to be feared or loved on your way up the comedy ladder?
A: Always be nice to people you meet on the way up because you'll meet the same people on the way back down - Jimmy Durante.

Q: Your stardom: a karmic inevitability or old fashioned luck?
A: You should ask Stardom that. Well that question has to do more with the alignment of the cosmos and chakras more than we'd like to think. Jean Paul Sartre would say everything has lead up to this moment and this moment will lead to everything else. Do you know what that means? Good. Neither do I. Actually I do. I'm very smart. And very good at being modest.