I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
AISHA TYLERSo 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 love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like,
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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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I like grown up comedy.
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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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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I was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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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’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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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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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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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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 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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