EATING WITH Nicole Byer

What did you eat while growing up in New Jersey? My mother used to make macaroni and cheese and it’s my favourite to this day. We only got it at Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Didn’t you wait tables early in your career? I waited tables at an Indian restaurant that had a performance space. Sometimes there’d be drag shows, sometimes there’d be comedy shows.

A man put salt in the cake instead of sugar, that was pretty awful to have in my mouth.

It was. My old roommate