I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
AISHA TYLERSuccessful 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 want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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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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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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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I love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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 such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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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 think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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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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