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.
AISHA TYLERI 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.
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.
AISHA TYLER“Trust me, you don’t want to have to actually interact with these people.”
AISHA TYLERI don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
AISHA TYLERA belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
AISHA TYLERThey always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
AISHA TYLERI do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
AISHA TYLERI visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
AISHA TYLERI don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
AISHA TYLERNothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
AISHA TYLERI’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
AISHA TYLERMarriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
AISHA TYLERMy parents were vegetarians. I’d show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
AISHA TYLERBut I love stand-up, and it’s where I came from creatively, so it’s something I never want to walk away from.
AISHA TYLERWhen 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.
AISHA TYLERReal success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
AISHA TYLER