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I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl.

I'm totally an East Coast person, energetic and sarcastic. I'm not a nice L.A. person.

Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

In a way, it's taken me 25 years to acknowledge that I am from the West Coast. I was always sort of pretending I was bicoastal or that I really belonged on the East Coast.

On the East Coast, people try to make life interesting. On the West Coast, they try to make it comfortable. The emphasis here is on fancy cars, how one looks, less on the mind per se.

Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.

The West Coast is so different from the common perceptions of it.

It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.