I'm not conventionally beautiful, but what is beauty? Beauty is whatever you want it to be.
— Nicole Byer
Making food is a labor of love - it's a nice thing to do for your loved ones to show you care about them, that you took the time to make them something. But for me, I don't cook. I would much rather hop in my car and go to a restaurant.
I was a server for a while, and I was a very bad one. So when people tipped me well, I felt like it was like, 'Let's get her out of here so she can get a new job.'
I like sweet-and-salty things.
I'm generally a positive person.
I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.
What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won't be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.
When I was little, I used to love eating peanut butter sandwiches with tomatoes, and they would have to be on potato bread. I loved them. It's so weird, and I can't imagine eating it now, but I used to love eating them. It's a lot of flavors.
I don't know if there is too much bacon! I used to have bacon parties. That's how much I love bacon.
It's so hard for me to insult people.
I'm very, very comfortable with who I am.
On '90 Day Bae,' Marcy Jarreau and I recap '90 Day Fiancee' because it's just the most insane, funniest show on television.
Putting a wig on and a costume and doing a wacky character is always fun.
I don't get dressed for other people. I get dressed for what I see in the mirror. My body isn't for other people's consumption. If I smile when I look in the mirror, then great. Let's start the day.
Comedy is subjective, so if you don't like it, that's fine.
People don't listen to each other anymore, and I think that's why people get offended or their feelings get hurt: because you're not actually listening to the person that's giving you signals they're upset.
I don't preach body positivity - I'm just okay with the body I'm in and say, 'I love me, so you should love you.'
I am surprisingly very sensitive.
I don't think anyone gets into comedy to host a baking show.
Red Lobster reminds me of my dad because he would always get coupons and be like, 'We're going to treat ourselves.'
I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.
I know Jonathan Van Ness from comedy, and he's got this wonderful show on Funny or Die called 'Gay of Thrones.'
Typecasting is a thing, but when it involves race, it narrows the roles available to an almost comically small amount.
I'm not heavily into baking.
I love potato bread. It's so good.
I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized.
To see another fat girl on television, I think, is really powerful. I'm happy to open the doors for a younger generation of fat, black women to be visible, to be seen, to be heard.
People like me as a host.
Feeling supported when you are doing comedy is the best way to make comedy - at least, that's how I think.
I moved to New York and went to a performing arts college, but it wasn't until UCB that I started performing on the regular, figuring out how I'm funny, why I'm funny, and how to play with an audience.
I search my name on Twitter because I don't want to miss the compliments, and I favorite the nice things people say about me so they know I saw it. People are more positive than they are negative, and I try not to harp on the negative.
I'm very silly.
My style is like, if I were to time travel to the '80s or '90s, I would fit in, but they would be like, 'Something's off about her.'
I really like Beyonce. She's a perfectionist who works really hard on each and every performance.
I love UCB Chelsea. There is, to me, no stage like it.
I'm not a baker, and I don't know anything about baking, and I don't claim to.
My favorite thing from Dairy Queen is a Peanut Buster Parfait, which is: fudge at the bottom, vanilla ice cream, some peanuts, fudge, peanuts, ice cream, fudge, and it's layered. But I also really like peanut butter cups, so I'll put peanut butter cups in there.
My mom was a really positive, jovial person, so I try to keep it upbeat like that.
I want to bring my color and background to the table because it makes life - and entertainment - more interesting.
I've done a handful of voiceover and on-camera jobs where I've been asked to 'be blacker.' That's code for sassier, more ghetto, more neck rolls and snaps.
No, I was not into cake fails before hosting 'Nailed It.'
I love pigs. I think they're very cute. I really want a pet pig, but those micro pigs, they don't stay micro.
I'm not mean. I can't do a roast.
I think we go through the world feeling alone and singular, and you forget that your one story is probably the same as millions of people's stories. Maybe with different specifics. But a lot of people experience the same things.
In my comedy, I'm not always trying to say something, but when I'm playing a creepy dude, you're laughing because you know that creepy dude. You've heard that dude say something awful, and I'm just putting a little creative spin on it.
Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there's no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response.
Comedy can do so much more than make you laugh.
I don't have any plans to ever diet again, but exercising does help with life. Endorphins are real, and it's annoying because I don't like to exercise. I hate running, but I started weightlifting, like, 150 pounds, and it's fun, and it makes me feel accomplished.
I'm just - I'm a child.
I wear a lot of vintage, thrifted stuff.
