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.
AISHA TYLERMy 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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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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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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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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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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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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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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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.
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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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