I wasn’t like every other comedian at the time because I was coming from a different perspective. I was an outsider looking in. And I was even different from all the other black comics on the scene because a lot of them were of Caribbean origin and a lot of their jokes were poking fun at Africans. So I got my first taste of success quite quickly just from being different. It was taking it to the next level that was difficult.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I wasn’t like every other comedian at the time because I was coming from a different perspective. I was an outsider looking in. And I was even different from all the other black comics on the scene because a lot of them were of Caribbean origin and a lot of their jokes were poking fun at Africans. So I got my first taste of success quite quickly just from being different. It was taking it to the next level that was difficult." in the context of "On how she differed from other Black comedians when launching her career in “The Daily Show’s Gina Yashere: ‘In England, I’d still be the token black face on Mock the Week’” in The Guardian (11 Jun 2017)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.