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.
AISHA TYLERI grew up on the back of a motorcycle – my dad didn’t have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.
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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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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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“You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.”
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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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’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.
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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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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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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 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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No one wants to hear about how awesome you were; people want to hear about the time you blew it.
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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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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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