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.
AISHA TYLERComedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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 started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV.
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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’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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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 like grown up comedy.
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I was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don’t tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
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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 can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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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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