I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
AISHA TYLERI think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
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I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don’t tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
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I like grown up comedy.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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