Terry Gross
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Podcast Appearances
Was she very brave in other ways, too?
She couldn't be there to protect you because she had to work.
So your family was so poor, and your mother was supporting the family, four children on her own.
Let me just explain again that you were squatting.
The family was squatting in an abandoned diner.
It must be so interesting to be on stage doing comedy about all these horrible things from your childhood that you could have been in legal jeopardy for, that a lot of your family could have been deported for.
And now you've found a way on stage to make that funny and, of course, to make it very public.
Is that because you watched so much TV when you were a kid?
You learned a lot about America from TV.
Is that where you learned like this perfect English, no accent kind of sound?