I was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.
AISHA TYLERSo 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.
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the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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 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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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 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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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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I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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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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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 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.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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