Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
AISHA TYLERWhen 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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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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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 spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I’ve always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
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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 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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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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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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I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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If you haven’t noticed yet, working sucks. Unless you are a racecar driver or an astronaut or Beyonce, working is completely and utterly devoid of awesome.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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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’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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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It is hard, it lasts all day, the lighting is generally fluorescent, and, apparently, drinking at your desk is frowned upon.
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