Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
AISHA TYLERSometimes 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 don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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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 wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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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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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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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
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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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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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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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I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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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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