Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
AISHA TYLERI can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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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 thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
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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 isn’t a carnival ride.
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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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