I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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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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 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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I really do know football.
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I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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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 don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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 don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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