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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.

Aisha Tyler

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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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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I was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.
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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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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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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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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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Always Challenge Fix People Some Women
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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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Actor Boycott Employ General Principle Show
I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
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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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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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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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