I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn’t do anything academically around the arts.
AISHA TYLERMuch like a wobbly toddler or an unhinged politician, one immediately looks for someone else to blame. God. Your parents. Ex-girlfriends. Undocumented immigrants. Marvin in Human Resources. China.
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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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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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I’m just myself, so I don’t know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they’re already dead and they can’t feel it. They don’t have feelings.
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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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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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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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The best advice anybody could have given me was to keep getting up over and over again.
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But I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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I do not actually DO these things, but I see myself doing them, and that is almost MORE satisfying, because I am also lying down.
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I am absolutely a Giants fan and I’m a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.
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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 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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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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