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.
AISHA TYLERSo 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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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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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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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If you ever needed to ruin someone’s fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
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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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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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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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I love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
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I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can’t wait to get back. Can’t wait to have some Timbits.
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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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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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I 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.
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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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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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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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