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.
AISHA TYLERI 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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I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
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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 don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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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 think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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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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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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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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 was really unhappy. I had a great job that I should have loved, yet I was miserable. I slowly realized that was because I wasn’t performing. So I just tried stand-up and fell in love with it after one performance.
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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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