I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
AISHA TYLERI really do know football.
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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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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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I like grown up comedy.
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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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 really do know football.
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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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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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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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I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I’d still have plenty of other things to do.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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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 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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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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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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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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I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
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Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
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I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
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