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.
AISHA TYLERSuccessful 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 grown up comedy.
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I really do know football.
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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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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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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.
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Much 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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I will say that stand-up is my first love; it’s how I got started and is in my bones.
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I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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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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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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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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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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A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom.
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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.
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