Loni Love

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.

Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.

If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.

I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.

I'm fat, and I support fat celebrities, like Oprah.

People say they get a warmness from me.

Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.

Everything that I've done on television has helped me to get the exposure that I need.

I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.

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.

My material reaches everyone.

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 always tell people if you want to do something, go to a great comedy show. And that's what I try to do: give people a really good comedy show.

One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.

Seriously, I love my gays. They accept me, and I accept them. Imperfections and all, we accept each other.

I love being a regular on 'Chelsea Lately!'

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.

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?

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.

If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?

It's been a long haul. It may seem to some people that have never heard of me, 'Oh she just popped up on the scene,' but I've been working on this for some time.

I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.

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.

I am the funny, crazy person.

I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.

I do think the audiences have a right to judge what they feel is offensive and not.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When you're a plus-sized girl, belts are your best friends. I also love bright colors and skirts, to show my pretty knees.

I tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.

Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

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.

I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.

Life is funny, and that's why I celebrate it in my shows.

Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore.

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.

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.

They're smart in Orange County. Smart and rich - just how I like 'em.

I am a seasoned performer.

Anyone driving a 1992 Cutlass, take it back, because I built it.

'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.

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.

The thing is, it's that Detroiters are hard workers. We've always been hard workers, even when times are down. I've been able to take that with me, that work ethic, to help me build my career.

It's always good to laugh.

The late, great Joan Rivers actually gave me so much advice, and she was so nice to me before she passed.

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.

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

We provide comedy for everybody, no matter what your race or gender. We just want people to come out and have a really good time.