I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
AISHA TYLERSo 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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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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Real 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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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’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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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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 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 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 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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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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