I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
AISHA TYLERReal 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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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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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 like grown up comedy.
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I don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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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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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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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 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 are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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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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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’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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After 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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