“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
AISHA TYLERI 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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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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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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Successful people just don’t let failure define them or keep them from doing what they want to do. For example, I’d have people come up to me after my shows, and they’d say they want to do stand-up but are scared they’re going to fail. I’d tell them,
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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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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 think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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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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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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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.
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