I grew up on the back of a motorcycle – my dad didn’t have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.
AISHA TYLERI can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be.
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I love being married. I love my husband. I think married people always have that thing where they think that the grass is greener on the single side, but all my single friends are like,
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I like grown up comedy.
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the 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.
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My 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.
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So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don’t want to ever give up any part of it.
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I actually wanted to be an attorney. I did do things on the side like improv and sketch comedy, but law was my focus. I was a very bookish, academic kid. When I got out of college,
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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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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 have one girlfriend who is dating right now – she’s divorced – and she’s on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that’s not a real game, but it’s my favorite thing to do.
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I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.
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I love it when I come across a word I don’t know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren’t smart enough to come along with me.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
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I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
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