I 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 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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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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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 the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
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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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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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Wipe the rivulets of watery drool from your face, and do it again, like an obstinate toddler running against the wall with his head in a bucket.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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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.
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Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
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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 really do know football.
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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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You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.
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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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