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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.

Aisha Tyler

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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When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
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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 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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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 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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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 my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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 like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they’re already dead and they can’t feel it. They don’t have feelings.
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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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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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If you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.
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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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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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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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Successful 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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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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’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
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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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