Hopefully people will be reinventing comedy forever and ever. This is just what I do, and it's a type of comedy.

I stand by everything I said. I absolutely can defend my material, and I take issue with people who say, "It's just shock value. It's not even funny." I disagree. There's different ways to be funny and to be a comedian.

I grew up in that minority. I grew up in the South, in Roswell, Georgia, and it was heavily white, Baptist, conservative. And the idea that somebody would come there and say those things that I said created an atmosphere where some people would walk out, and suddenly they weren't in the minority. For an hour and a half, they were the majority. So I would argue that it does need to be said.

I am truly passionate and concerned about the lack of empathy that people show towards one another.

If people disagree with me and want to articulate it, that's not only their right but almost their obligation.

It's easy to see that two people might come up with that same idea.

You can't just yell jokes at people.