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 like grown up comedy.
More Aisha Tyler Quotes
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I’m such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 think diversity in television is important. It’s not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity.
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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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Comedy is ugly. It’s honest, it’s raw.
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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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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