I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
AISHA TYLERI’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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I really do know football.
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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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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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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 will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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 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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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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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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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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