You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
AISHA TYLERI 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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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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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 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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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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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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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’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don’t tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
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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 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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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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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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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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I really do know football.
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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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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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I don’t know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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