I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.

I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.

I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

Women and minorities have excelled beautifully in comedy, but very few women are the lead in a drama.

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

In television, women can really run anything. It can be a comedy, it can be a drama, it can be genre, it can be anything. But in films, women are still getting to the top.

I always loved comedy but I didn't start formally until I was in college.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

There's a glorious sense of freedom in comedy, just allowing myself to tell jokes, allowing myself to interrupt myself and tell old African folk stories that I made up - or didn't - and Jamaican stories.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.