I’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
AISHA TYLERI like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they’re already dead and they can’t feel it. They don’t have feelings.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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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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I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like,
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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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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 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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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 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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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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 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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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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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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