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.
AISHA TYLERI’m the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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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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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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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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I think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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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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I was raised by a single dad, so I’ve always just kind of liked “guys” stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.
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I like grown up comedy.
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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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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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I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry.
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So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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