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I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.

Aisha Tyler

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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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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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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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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Successful people just don’t let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I’d have people come up to me after my shows, and they’d say they want to do stand-up but are scared they’re going to fail. I’d tell them,
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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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One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I’ve always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
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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 love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like,
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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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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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When I was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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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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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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I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
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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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I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can’t wait to get back. Can’t wait to have some Timbits.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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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Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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I’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.

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