00:00If I ever met a man who I liked enough and he liked to cook,
00:04I would lie and say, sure, let's cook together.
00:08I am Nicole Byer, and I host Nailed It on Netflix.
00:13Let's see what you did, Tony.
00:17Nailed it.
00:20I don't mean to laugh, but your princess is terrifying.
00:23I don't bake.
00:24I don't know anything about it.
00:26I don't know anything about food.
00:27And they were like, this is great.
00:28We love it.
00:29We just want you to be you.
00:30Having a successful show on Netflix is really awesome,
00:33because Netflix is global.
00:35And people from other countries now know who I am.
00:39And the response has just been overwhelmingly positive.
00:43They're just really great.
00:44They're a very nice company to work for.
00:46And I don't just say that because they're signing my checks.
00:48I say it because I genuinely mean it.
00:50I don't think I've ever reflected on the meaning of getting paid
00:57to just be me because that's how my career started.
01:02I started on a show called Girl Code on MTV.
01:04When girls flip their long hair in my face, I can't.
01:10And that was fully me, my jokes, my thoughts.
01:14And it's just snowballed into people.
01:18People seem to like my personality.
01:20They seem to like what I'm serving.
01:22So it feels good that people like me.
01:26Being a fat little black, I don't think it ever crossed my mind
01:31that I was being representation for people who don't get representation.
01:37Because growing up, I had like Monique.
01:39I had like on the Parkers and Queen Latifah on Living Single
01:45and Kim Coles on Living Single.
01:46So like I saw myself on television and then there was just this time period
01:50where there were no, you know, fat black women who got to be sexual
01:54and funny and talented.
01:58So now I understand how important me being visible is to people.
02:04I like to post pictures of myself in a bikini.
02:07And I hashtag it very fat, very brave because people are like,
02:09you're so brave for showing off your body.
02:12And at first I was like, how stupid.
02:14But then I understand, I understand that it is important for people
02:18to see people who look like me because they look like that at home.
02:21They're like, I can't do anything.
02:22I'm too fat.
02:22And it's like, well, no, go out and live your life.
02:25I live in this body.
02:26I like this body.
02:28If I wanted to change this body, I could.
02:31I just don't want to right now.
02:32I love cookies and lasagna.
02:37I'm like Garfield.
02:38I am an archetype.
02:39There's the fat, sassy black friend, you know,
02:42or the lady who works at the desk at the hotel who's like,
02:45oh, where's your roommate?
02:47You know, like that's an archetype that exists.
02:50But like, that's not truly me.
02:52When I first started out, nobody was ever like, lose weight,
02:54because there was parts for me that existed.
02:57What I needed to do was carve out parts for me, roles for me,
03:02that weren't just the sidekick, where I got to be the lead,
03:04because that's breaking through.
03:07I've been very persistent, and I think being an actor or comic
03:12or any sort of performer, you have to have some sort of
03:15delusion that you're going to make it and do this
03:18and be successful.
03:20So I think I was pretty delusional when I started,
03:21and I really thank God I was.
03:24What's next for me is I have a special coming out on Netflix.
03:28It's part of the series called Comedians of the World.
03:30It's 47 comedians, 13 regions, eight languages.
03:33It's an extravaganza of sorts, and I'm really proud of it,
03:37and I'm really excited.
03:38I think it's funny, it's very true to who I am as a comic,
03:41who I am as a person.
03:43So I think people will enjoy it.
03:46I hope they do.
03:48I hope they do.
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