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 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.
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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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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 know, it’s about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying .
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Real success and accomplishment, at whatever it is you are passionate about, requires real work.
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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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They always say some women like to fix people. I don’t like to fix people, but you like a challenge.
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Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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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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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 like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don’t employ actors.
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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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