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.
AISHA TYLERI 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 like grown up comedy.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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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 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 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.
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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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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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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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When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
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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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Much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.
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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 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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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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 like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they’re already dead and they can’t feel it. They don’t have feelings.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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