I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
AISHA TYLERI will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
AISHA TYLERI 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.
AISHA TYLERthe freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love.
AISHA TYLERMarriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
AISHA TYLERI can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
AISHA TYLERAll these young books for women are like I’m 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can’t get a date. Come on.
AISHA TYLERSo 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 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 TYLERI 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.
AISHA TYLEROn general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
AISHA TYLERTV always wants more people to be watching.
AISHA TYLERI’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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.
AISHA TYLERWhen I was younger, those kinds of comments bothered me, but eventually got to a point where I realized I wasn’t going to change who I was.
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 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 TYLER