Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
AISHA TYLER
I 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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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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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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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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’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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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 talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way.
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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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I 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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When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.
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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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Marriage isn’t a carnival ride.
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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 always tell people that if you really want to know somebody, they should listen to that person’s interview with me. I spend a lot of time with my guests.
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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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