Chris Redd

“I'm really hard on myself about sticking to plans and seeing things through.”

“Chicago is just where I found myself and found my voice.”

“It was easy to make white people laugh - I had been going to school in the suburbs, I know how to make my story translate.”

“With stand-up, you can hear something work immediately.”

“I'm just a comic, man.”

“I was such a big music dude. And I made all these mix tapes - I was like the kid who made mix tapes and brought them to the school to sell them for, like, five dollars.”

“Rap helped me find my swagger. It also helped me get rid of my stutter.”

“I was raised joking. You clown, you clown people. That's kind of how we come up.”

“Being on hold with 'SNL' is hard because you're just waiting, but it's also a stamp of approval. There were jobs that started looking at me because I had this hold. It tells Hollywood in a way that 'Hey, this guy is good.'”

“I'm always touring, I'm always on the road. I never sit down.”

“I will never forget someone bringing up my mixtape and just trying to convince me on the spot that I should leave comedy and go back to rapping. And they had never been to a rap concert of mine, but they just knew this was better than whatever they just saw! It hurt so bad.”

“You know, I have my mental health issues myself. So I'm very aware of those things. And I never come from that place of making fun of that specifically.”

“Bust Down' is one of the funniest things I've ever done in my life.”

“It's the stand-up in me - I like to figure out what makes people laugh, what makes people tick.”

“I always worked on holidays when I had to wait tables and stuff like that, so I'm used to it, but now I just get to do comedy.”

“My grandma was somebody who had a garden and grew plants all the time.”

“Winning an Emmy was the best-worst thing that could happen to a first-year person on 'SNL.'”

“I'm really excited to write a show, to write a single-camera show.”

“Richard Pryor was a staple in my household. My dad had Richard's albums. I used to sneak and listen to them.”

“I really found a new love for impressions. I will continue to hone that.”