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.
AISHA TYLERI 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 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 don’t know if I was always an open person, but I think stand-up comics specifically have this way of running towards embarrassing things.
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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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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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All these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.
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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 am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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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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I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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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 take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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