TONY ROCK

There's nothing like the freedom of being in a roomful of strangers and trying to make them laugh... You either sink or swim. It's like verbal boxing.

I never knew I was poor until I got older because we just had so much fun. I thought everyone had grilled cheese night and that everyone had Cup-O-Noodles for dinner on Fridays.

Once school let out every year, my siblings and I would get packed into a station wagon to drive to South Carolina to see my grandparents for summer vacation. If school let out on Friday, we were probably in the station wagon no later than Sunday morning, and we would make stops along the way.

You can live with diabetes. It's not the worst thing to have, but you have to manage yourself and have some self control.

You know why kids don't eat fruits? Because fruits don't have any mascots. Every sugary cereal has a bear or a rabbit going, 'Kid! Eat it! Eat it, eat it, eat it!' You're a kid, you're like, 'I got to get that cereal.'

'All Def' is unlike any other comedy show or set because 'All Def' goes back to the essence of how urban comedy started. We give it a 'stoop appeal.' A stoop appeal is important for us because it's where pretty much all black comics started doing their standup: cracking jokes on the stoop, in the hood.

I will never be the comic that apologizes for telling a joke.

I have seven brothers and sisters, and they could all be standup comics!

I hate when rappers do interviews. They say stuff like, 'If I wasn't doing this, I'd be dead or in jail.' Like, damn, those are the only two options? What about managing Kinkos?

I saw my father every day of my childhood.

I can make anything in the room funny in a few seconds.

Everybody cheats on the Kardashians.

Never steal jokes.

I have seven brothers and two sisters, so there was always a little friendly competition in the house. I don't think that's anything unusual with that many siblings.

I keep saying this - and I keep putting it off because I get busy - but I keep saying one year I'm gonna tape our Thanksgiving dinner or, like, our Christmas dinner and maybe put it on my website just for people to see how funny it really is, how much fun it really, really is.

I'm a skinny kid from Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

If my sisters like something I do, then I'm very happy with it. I only listen to my sisters!

It's part of the gift and the curse of coming behind my brother. I'm not afforded the luxury of just taking a set casual, taking the night off. Because if I bomb, it's, 'Oh, he's not funny - he's just doing it because of his brother.'

Women do so much aesthetically to attract men that they sometimes overlook the simple things, like cooking.

Any club has more than enough comics, so if you're not there every night talking to the booker, you're not going to get on. You have to be there more than they are.

I talk to the audience like I talk to my friends on the stoop.

My older brothers have their own children, and they have to go to soccer practice and football practice on the weekends. They're doing their thing and on the weekends, and I'm on the road. The busier we get, the less time we get to see each other. That's why, when we see each other, it's really, really kind of special.

If I modeled myself after anybody, it probably would have been Richard Pryor.

Nothing's given in the Rock family.

Every time I go onstage, it's a little less 'Chris Rock's brother.'