There is nothing like a live performance. You can look at things on television, and you can look at things on YouTube, but when you get in a room full of people and you say one joke, and everyone's laughing at the same thing, it's a really great experience.
Loni Love
I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.
Whatever you're destined to do, you will be.
With comedy, I try to steer toward, you know, talking about people that do crazy things, messed-up things. That's what I like to talk about.
I have a fear of being broke. That's what I have a fear of. I'm not kidding.
What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts.
I couldn't be where I am today if I had children. My focus would be on my children and home. And you can do it later in life.
Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.
Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore.
What we're trying to do is take these words and soften them. I'm an African-American comic. I use the b-word in my act.
Men don't know how to act like men sometimes. Take the trash out. Open up the door. Rub my feet. I mean, it's a two-way street!
Seriously, I love my gays. They accept me, and I accept them. Imperfections and all, we accept each other.
I'm what you call a satisfied single. I don't want to give any trip reports when I come home.
Now that I live in Los Angeles, if I meet somebody from Detroit, it's like there's this brother- or sisterhood, where we're real folks.
I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.
I am a seasoned performer.
I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.
It is harder to dress a bigger woman no matter what anybody wants to say.
I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.
If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.
Everybody wants to say females aren't as funny as men. That's not true. You just don't see as many because it takes a lot to do this occupation.
Miss Britney Spears took a dude that was already with a girl that had babies. And sometimes when you do that kind of stuff and take a dude, that's called karma.
I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.
Mom was a nurse's aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived.
When you're a plus-sized girl, belts are your best friends. I also love bright colors and skirts, to show my pretty knees.
Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.
I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.
I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.
The late, great Joan Rivers actually gave me so much advice, and she was so nice to me before she passed.
If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?
Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through.
Everything that I've done on television has helped me to get the exposure that I need.
Being a former engineer, you learn to always go back, study yourself, see what you could've done differently, see what you could've said.
One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, 'Please save someone else's job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me - and just lay me off.' I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic.
At my job, my manager had a massive heart attack; we had layoffs. It made me realize that nothing is certain, nothing is for sure, and if I'm going to make a move, I gotta make a move now.
'SNL' ain't been relevant since Jim Belushi. It's on every week; it's not funny. They need to find some black women to put on there to make it funny.
I've seen Don Rickles up at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Don Rickles was doing jokes in a wheelchair, and he was headlining a show. Do you think they would let a woman do that?
I have relationships. I date. But it takes a lot to say I'm going to be married and have children.
I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.
Anyone driving a 1992 Cutlass, take it back, because I built it.
I love being a regular on 'Chelsea Lately!'
One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.
When we heard that little dial-up sound, that eeeeee, and then you connected, and you then go and you check your mail and you get that 'you got mail,' you were excited. I mean, that was the thing.
We have to remember that people are free to love who they want to love. That also means that black women are free to love who they want to love.
Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.
I don't have a lot of time for television because I am making it, so it's really hard for me to sit down. But when I do get a chance, I try to catch up on 'Scandal,' 'Empire' and 'black-ish.'
I will never say never, but I can tell you right now - I am perfectly happy with being who I am. I just - I really - I'm an entertainer, and the thing that I'd decided to work on was my career, and I decided the energy that I was putting in certain relationships - I was really kind of wasting my time, and I knew it.
People are getting picked up off the street and getting a show, and it's because we're not using the people that are trying to be entertainers - use more of them.
That's the one thing I have to say to females. If you don't have a certain look, or if you look a certain way, they won't accept you.
I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people.
