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.
AISHA TYLERI will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
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I always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I really do know football.
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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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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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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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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Successful people just don’t let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I’d have people come up to me after my shows, and they’d say they want to do stand-up but are scared they’re going to fail. I’d tell them,
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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