I wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
AISHA TYLERWhen I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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 don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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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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I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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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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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 will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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If you ever needed to ruin someone’s fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
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I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV.
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