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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.

Aisha Tyler

I’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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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 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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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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I’m just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can.
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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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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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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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But I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
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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 always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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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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“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
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I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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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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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 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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They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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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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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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So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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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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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 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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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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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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