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.
AISHA TYLERI think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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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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I really do know football.
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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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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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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 was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.
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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 don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
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