But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
AISHA TYLERI want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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My 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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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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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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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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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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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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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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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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 think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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