I like grown up comedy.
AISHA TYLEREvery ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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 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 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 can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
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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 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 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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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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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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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.
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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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