I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
AISHA TYLERI will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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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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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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I always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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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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So much of a stand-up’s life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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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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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