They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
AISHA TYLERI will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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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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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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Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
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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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When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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 such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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I really do know football.
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I have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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