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.
AISHA TYLERI 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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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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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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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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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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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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 like grown up comedy.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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 love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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I always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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So much of a stand-up’s life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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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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