So I think the longer you do stand-up, the more comfortable you are. You stop wanting to hide your foibles and instead want to show who you are.
AISHA TYLERI 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 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 was young I thought, ‘Yeah, people don’t see, they’re not recognizing how funny I am, and how talented I am’. And the guys that mentored me were like, ‘
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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 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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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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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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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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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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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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.
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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 was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don’t tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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