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.
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’ve just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find 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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You just have to keep getting up’. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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TV always wants more people to be watching.
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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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Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I’m super-grateful.
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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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I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone’s afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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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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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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I was not one of those people who wanted to be a comedian when I was growing up. I liked comedy, but didn’t know it was something you could do for a living.
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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they’re always going to be up, and I think that’s impossible for anyone.
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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