So I think the longer you do stand-up, the more comfortable you are. You stop wanting to hide your foibles and instead want to show who you are.
AISHA TYLERI’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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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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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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I don’t know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things.
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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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So much of a stand-up’s life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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