I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.
— Loni Love
I appreciate the audience for checking us as comics.
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.
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.
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.
Now AOL is the grandma of online Web services. I mean, we don't need it anymore.
They're smart in Orange County. Smart and rich - just how I like 'em.
If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.
People say they get a warmness from me.
I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.
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.
Seriously, I love my gays. They accept me, and I accept them. Imperfections and all, we accept each other.
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?
When you're a plus-sized girl, belts are your best friends. I also love bright colors and skirts, to show my pretty knees.
Whatever you're destined to do, you will be.
I like having peace and quiet in my life, and I am perfectly happy in my relationships.
Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.
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 do think the audiences have a right to judge what they feel is offensive and not.
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 tend to be everybody's best friend, and it kind of goes over into my comedy.
I just do jokes about real situations, pure observation.
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.
My material reaches everyone.
I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.
Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.
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.
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.
I love being a regular on 'Chelsea Lately!'
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.
The president of CBS handpicked me for the 'Star Search' revival, which Arsenio Hall hosted. He picked 12 comics, and I was the only female. I always look to that as inspiration.
I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking about when I say that. And for everybody has a different path - find out your path! And if you want to do it, don't let people make you feel inadequate because you wanted to do something that's different.
I'm what you call a satisfied single. I don't want to give any trip reports when I come home.
What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts.
I am the funny, crazy person.
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.
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.
Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.
Life is funny, and that's why I celebrate it in my shows.
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.
Being a female comic and getting a Comedy Central special is an honor because not a lot of women get that.
I'm fat, and I support fat celebrities, like Oprah.
Everything that I've done on television has helped me to get the exposure that I need.
As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.
One of my dreams was to change the way women of color were seen on television.
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.
If you think about how many headlining female comics are out there, you could say 15, maybe 20?
Even when I was an engineer, I was a comic on my job. At birthday and holiday parties, I was the one scheduling and emceeing. If you work on your gift, and you're good, it will shine through.
I will never say never, but I can tell you right now - I am perfectly happy with being who I am. I just - I really - I'm an entertainer, and the thing that I'd decided to work on was my career, and I decided the energy that I was putting in certain relationships - I was really kind of wasting my time, and I knew it.
It is harder to dress a bigger woman no matter what anybody wants to say.
