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.
AISHA TYLERI 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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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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 like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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If you ever needed to ruin someone’s fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
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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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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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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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I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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