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“I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.”

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When I talk about feminism, sometimes I feel like being a black woman is cast aside.

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Race affects everything that I do, and everything that I create speaks to intersectionality.

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Sometimes, you feel like, 'Am I going to be upset about this as a black person or as a woman first? Or am I…

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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,…

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'The Daily Show' was like my family. We had dogs in the office every day, all day. It was just such a warm, beautiful,…

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I don't really like conflict at all, and I really find conflict pretty devastating. I try to avoid it at all costs.

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I'm a young correspondent, so sometimes I'm just young. Sometimes I'm just straightforward.

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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…

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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',…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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