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 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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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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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Marriage 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 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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So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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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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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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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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