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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You know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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I love to be busy and be challenged. I’m my happiest when I’m under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.
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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 am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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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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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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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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When 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.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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I’m my own boss and my boss is a total ass.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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If you ever needed to ruin someone’s fun, I mean really poop a party, just move things to the workplace. Fun terminated.
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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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After going through a lot of procedures and spending a lot of money … the doctor said, ‘Look, based on what we’re seeing here, I just don’t think this is going to happen for you.’
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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 don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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I wish I could say I’m an architect and planned it this way, foresaw doing all these things, but honestly, I’ve been lucky that things have come across my path and they’ve worked out well for me.
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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.
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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Real sacrifice. Real disappointment. Real failure. And it requires the ability to scrape your sorry ass up off the floor, stumble to your feet.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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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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