I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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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.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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 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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My parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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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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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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