I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
AISHA TYLERMarriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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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 grew up on the back of a motorcycle – my dad didn’t have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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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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I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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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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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.
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I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
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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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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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