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I've told Michael Jackson jokes. If you got really technical, you could say those are jokes about child molestation. You could, if you got technical. A lot of this is just selective outrage because honestly, the audience are the ones that tell us that something shouldn't be spoken. The audience lets us know. And I've never, in my almost 30 years of being a comedian, seen a comedian continue to tell a joke that the audience doesn't respond to. I've never seen it.

I would make it illegal to walk into a comedy club with a tie on.

Basically I try not to knock other comedians.

In England, you laugh at yourselves; in France, we laugh at others.

Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we don't want to know that you poop.

I don't find that I subscribe or believe in many rules about what comedy is and what makes it funny.

In black comedic culture, there's always been a thing about "Man, I ain't gotta wear a dress to be funny!" But I've done it.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.