I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
AISHA TYLERI 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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I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
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I am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
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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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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 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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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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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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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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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 actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,
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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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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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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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 spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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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 think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
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One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I’ve always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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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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