The popularity of '2 Dope Queens' just showed there was like a hunger for new stories because we have alternative comics on our show that wouldn't normally be featured on, like, a white guy's comedy show. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
With '2 Dope Queens,' we get the opportunity to love and enjoy each other and have fun being best friends and being women of color and talking about our personal experience. Also, we give an opportunity to elevate voices for… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Some days I'll be like, 'I didn't do anything great today,' and I'll be bummed. And some days I'll wake up, and I'm like,… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
'The Daily Show' was like my family. We had dogs in the office every day, all day. It was just such a warm, beautiful,… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I don't really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I really like when different stories are represented, it's not just the same kind of person, and when there's humor in it, and there's… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show',… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
There's such an adrenaline rush for me on stage and having all these people look at you. There's an adrenaline rush from not having… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking… — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
