Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
AISHA TYLERAfter going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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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 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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I really do know football.
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I like grown up comedy.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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 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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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’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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 spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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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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