The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
AISHA TYLERWhereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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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When I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.
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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.
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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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Much like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.
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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 do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
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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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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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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 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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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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 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’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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