Nicole Byer Quotes

On ’90 Day Bae,’ Marcy Jarreau and I recap ’90 Day Fiancee’ because it’s just the most insane, funniest show on television.

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.’

During my 20s, I truly said ‘yes‘ to everything, whether it was a good idea or not.

Feeling supported when you are doing comedy is the best way to make comedy – at least, that’s how I think.

I’m very silly.

Be comfortable in your skin.

The way I toe the line with comedy is I run jokes past people.

Comedy is subjective, so if you don’t like it, that’s fine.

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.

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’m not conventionally beautiful, but what is beauty? Beauty is whatever you want it to be.

I want to bring my color and background to the table because it makes life – and entertainment – more interesting.

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’m generally a positive person.

Typecasting is a thing, but when it involves race, it narrows the roles available to an almost comically small amount.

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.

I don’t know if there is too much bacon! I used to have bacon parties. That’s how much I love bacon.

L.A. may be easy for the beautiful because it’s the land of the beautiful.

I’m not sassy all day every day. I have levels and feelings.

I’m not mean. I can’t do a roast.

Comedy can do so much more than make you laugh.

Commercial auditions can be pretty humiliating.

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 wear a lot of vintage, thrifted stuff.

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.

I don’t think anyone gets into comedy to host a baking show.

I had a casting director tell me to be blacker.

If someone goes, ‘Can you be sassier?’ I go, ‘I can be my kind of sassier. I’m not gonna put a voice on. The voice I have is my voice.’

I’m not heavily into baking.

I know Jonathan Van Ness from comedy, and he’s got this wonderful show on Funny or Die called ‘Gay of Thrones.’

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would look people in the face and be like, ‘Your snake cake‘s not good.’

No, I was not into cake fails before hosting ‘Nailed It.’

I think I saw ‘Ghost‘ at, like, 6 or 7 – like, a little too early to see ‘Ghost’ – but I would watch Whoopi over any kids‘ thing. Everything she did was so funny, and all of her scenes are almost like sketches.

What I needed to do was carve out parts for me, roles for me that weren’t just the sidekick, where I got to be the lead, because that’s breaking through.

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 am an archetype. There’s the fat, sassy, black friend, you know? That’s an archetype that exists, but that’s not truly me.

I love pigs. I think they’re very cute. I really want a pet pig, but those micro pigs, they don’t stay micro.

My mom was like, ‘You talk so much. You have too much energy. Why don’t you just join the play or something?’ It was a comedy, and I got laughs in rehearsal, but onstage, in front of a whole audience, I got a lot of laughs.

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.

I like sweet-and-salty things.

Dogs are very strange, but they’re wonderful and they love to cuddle, and their breath is so stinky!

If you want to change your body, that’s well within your means to do that, but if you don’t want to change your body, you need to accept it and embrace it.

I really like Beyonce. She’s a perfectionist who works really hard on each and every performance.

My mom was a really positive, jovial person, so I try to keep it upbeat like that.

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’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.

I hate that there’s such an emphasis on women in comedy. Are women OK? Are they just as funny as men? Yes!

I’m not a baker, and I don’t know anything about baking, and I don’t claim to.

I’m very, very comfortable with who I am.

If someone is going to say something nasty to me about my body, that means my body is powerful. If you really stopped your day because you needed to say something to me, that’s power.

Red Lobster reminds me of my dad because he would always get coupons and be like, ‘We’re going to treat ourselves.’

I was in a Rite Aid… and fell into a Christmas tree display. None other than Shia LaBeouf helped me out of it.

I’m just – I’m a child.

I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.

I perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where my race and gender are rarely pointed out.