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I love comedy. And comedy loves me black.

I'm a comedian. I do comedy. In short, my life has become comedy.

I was getting my hair done at the beauty salon. A young man walked in

and said he was selling boot-leg DVDs, and that he had "The Passion of

Christ" on DVD. A little old black lady, who didn't miss a beat,

chimed back, "No thanks baby, I've got the book." I thought that was

so right on. But then he said, "There's a book?"

I've been doing a lot of traveling as of lately, performing at

colleges and universities in the Midwest and the South. At one school

I performed at, a kid was heckling me. I shot back, it was a friendly

fire of course, and the student body loved it. Then I found out at the

end of the show that the kid had turrets. I was recently performing in

Kentucky, it was my first time there, and I was really impressed with

the hospitality in the South. People kept asking me "How y'all doing?

How y'all doing?" I just kept thinking, it's just me here, but we're

all fine, thank you. I did a show at an aviation college. The students

were great, - very sharp and surpringsly charming. Unfortunately, they

were all obese and I couldn't help but think, "How are you going to

fly a plane if you can't even fit into a cock pit?" I just got booked

to perform at school that I had applied to and was denied! Now that is

going to be a show!

I've also been taking acting classes, which has been a crazy amount of

fun. While stand-up comedy is my first love, acting is becoming a

close second. Losing yourself in a scene is completely therapeutic. I

was doing a cold reading with my partner in class last week. My

character gets angry in the scene, so I gave her a little sass. My

acting teacher stopped us and asked me if I was a black person.

Confused, I said "Uh, yeah...I'm black." Lovingly, he said "That's why

that attitude comes so natural for you. Go with that." These are the

moments in my life where I'd like to think "What would Oprah do?"

A very close friend of mine recently came out to her family. She was

pretty upset about telling them she was gay. I told her I could

empathize. It's always an awkward moment when I have tell people I'm

black.

You know, people often say "You can't make this stuff up!" and "The