I have always been a softie, and I fight it with every fiber of my being. Sadly, my being’s fibers need to hit the gym.
AISHA TYLEROne thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I’ve always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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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Whereas regular people tend to run away – because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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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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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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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV.
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I wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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If you ever needed to ruin someone’s fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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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