Deon Cole

“My job is to make you laugh. It isn't to inform you, but it is to bring awareness of how I see things without making you feel extremely bad about it. If you want to change how you think, fine. If not, fine. But at the end of the day no matter what you're doing, I need you to respect me, love me, and love yourself.”

“If I do a joke on stage and I feel like the energies a little off, I'll put my pride aside and ask someone who I feel is greater than me in order to just get insight.”

“I did Def Jam in '94 and 2006. There will never be anything like Def Jam, like it was.”

“A friend of mine was watching TV one day and he just was like, 'I bet you want to do comedy,' and he was like, 'You should. I bet you could if you try it.' So I went to a comedy club and went on stage and never looked back. It just became a career when it became more demanding than the job I had.”

“I remember the times when I had nothing to do. So anytime I feel tired, I feel like complaining, I think of that, and I go: 'Remember, you had nothing to do.' So I get up, do what I gotta do.”

“If anybody's in any kind of commercial, it's good to be a part of a brand, part of a system that can help the community Old Spice has been amazing, donating money to causes and needs. That's what it's about. Yeah, they would love for everyone to wear Old Spice. But it's more than that.”

“Every time I go work out material, I bomb more than I do good.”

“I never thought I could be a comedian, because I never thought I was funny. A lot of other people thought I was funny in the sense that, 'you're crazy.'”