When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
AISHA TYLERI 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 will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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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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I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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 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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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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