I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
AISHA TYLERI spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.
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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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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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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’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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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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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’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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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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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 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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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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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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