What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won't be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.
Nicole Byer
I love pigs. I think they're very cute. I really want a pet pig, but those micro pigs, they don't stay micro.
I'm not a baker, and I don't know anything about baking, and I don't claim to.
Putting a wig on and a costume and doing a wacky character is always fun.
Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would look people in the face and be like, 'Your snake cake's not good.'
I wear a lot of vintage, thrifted stuff.
I'm just - I'm a child.
People like me as a host.
When I was little, I used to love eating peanut butter sandwiches with tomatoes, and they would have to be on potato bread. I loved them. It's so weird, and I can't imagine eating it now, but I used to love eating them. It's a lot of flavors.
My mom was a really positive, jovial person, so I try to keep it upbeat like that.
I don't get dressed for other people. I get dressed for what I see in the mirror. My body isn't for other people's consumption. If I smile when I look in the mirror, then great. Let's start the day.
I've done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I've been asked to 'be blacker.' That's code for sassier, more ghetto, more neck rolls and snaps.
I know Jonathan Van Ness from comedy, and he's got this wonderful show on Funny or Die called 'Gay of Thrones.'
Comedy can do so much more than make you laugh.
I'm not conventionally beautiful, but what is beauty? Beauty is whatever you want it to be.
Be comfortable in your skin.
I'm not sassy all day every day. I have levels and feelings.
I search my name on Twitter because I don't want to miss the compliments, and I favorite the nice things people say about me so they know I saw it. People are more positive than they are negative, and I try not to harp on the negative.
I don't have any plans to ever diet again, but exercising does help with life. Endorphins are real, and it's annoying because I don't like to exercise. I hate running, but I started weightlifting, like, 150 pounds, and it's fun, and it makes me feel accomplished.
L.A. may be easy for the beautiful because it's the land of the beautiful.
I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions of people's stories. Maybe with different specifics. But a lot of people experience the same things.
I was in a Rite Aid... and fell into a Christmas tree display. None other than Shia LaBeouf helped me out of it.
I'm not mean. I can't do a roast.
I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized.
To see another fat girl on television, I think, is really powerful. I'm happy to open the doors for a younger generation of fat, black women to be visible, to be seen, to be heard.
I was a server for a while, and I was a very bad one. So when people tipped me well, I felt like it was like, 'Let's get her out of here so she can get a new job.'
My favorite thing from Dairy Queen is a Peanut Buster Parfait, which is: fudge at the bottom, vanilla ice cream, some peanuts, fudge, peanuts, ice cream, fudge, and it's layered. But I also really like peanut butter cups, so I'll put peanut butter cups in there.
People don't listen to each other anymore, and I think that's why people get offended or their feelings get hurt: because you're not actually listening to the person that's giving you signals they're upset.
I just woke up one day was like, 'People know you're fat whether you have a cardigan on or your arms are out, so why not just let your arms be out because you're hot.'
On '90 Day Bae,' Marcy Jarreau and I recap '90 Day Fiancee' because it's just the most insane, funniest show on television.
I love UCB Chelsea. There is, to me, no stage like it.
If someone is going to say something nasty to me about my body, that means my body is powerful. If you really stopped your day because you needed to say something to me, that's power.
I've said it before, but I'll say it again because you can't say it enough: Your skin is beautiful - dark, light, in the middle, whatever. Brown is beautiful. Your hair is beautiful. If you wear a weave, it's beautiful. If you choose to be natural, that's beautiful. Also, you are enough.
I don't preach body positivity - I'm just okay with the body I'm in and say, 'I love me, so you should love you.'
I don't know if there is too much bacon! I used to have bacon parties. That's how much I love bacon.
Making food is a labor of love - it's a nice thing to do for your loved ones to show you care about them, that you took the time to make them something. But for me, I don't cook. I would much rather hop in my car and go to a restaurant.
I love potato bread. It's so good.
I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.
No, I was not into cake fails before hosting 'Nailed It.'
Talking-head shows are just a camera, a sound guy, and then a PA writing down what you say and a producer asking you questions. And you're just supposed to rephrase the question and add a joke to it. Figuring out how to do that was super hard.
Comedy is subjective, so if you don't like it, that's fine.
In my comedy, I'm not always trying to say something, but when I'm playing a creepy dude, you're laughing because you know that creepy dude. You've heard that dude say something awful, and I'm just putting a little creative spin on it.
Dogs are very strange, but they're wonderful and they love to cuddle, and their breath is so stinky!
What I needed to do was carve out parts for me, roles for me that weren't just the sidekick, where I got to be the lead, because that's breaking through.
Typecasting is a thing, but when it involves race, it narrows the roles available to an almost comically small amount.
It's not a weakness to admit that you're wrong.
I like sweet-and-salty things.
If someone goes, 'Can you be sassier?' I go, 'I can be my kind of sassier. I'm not gonna put a voice on. The voice I have is my voice.'
Red Lobster reminds me of my dad because he would always get coupons and be like, 'We're going to treat ourselves.'
I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.
