Michelle Obama

how the cashier sounded when she said this to her.

And then it was also very important.

Like, there were aspects of the story that were important to her that if you were just telling it straight up, you would leave out because it wasn't the most direct way there.

And then also, you know, my mom...

was a special ed teacher for years and then she became a librarian.

And so, you know, she would pick me up and, uh, after school and then take me to the library with her a lot of days.

And that, that's how I got like such a love and interest for things that are like really obscure.

Cause you're just, you're just in the library in general.

And unless somebody checks out the book you were reading yesterday that you decide not to check out, you have that, but you also have all these options.

Right.

And then, um,

And then my dad was like a paraprofessional that worked with kids with special needs and everything in the classroom and stuff.

And so I think all those things coming together gave me, I would say, like a love and interest for people, but also an approach to storytelling and hopefully thinking that was unique from my experiences and everything.

And so I think the people learning something along the way is sometimes incidental from how best I feel like I should cover the thing so that you understand how funny this thing is, if that makes sense.

I have before.

Yeah, so when I joined Daily Show, that's like the most diverse room I had ever been in and everything.

But a lot of other entertainment spaces and things that I've done, I was the only Black person.

And it is funny because people talk about DEI and some of these initiatives and everything.

And the thing that's always funny to me about

the outrage is that y'all already have the number.