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.
AISHA TYLERComedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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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I like grown up comedy.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
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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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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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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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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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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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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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I don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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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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