I’m sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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 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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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 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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I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
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I’m black, and black don’t crack. It does droop.
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I like grown up comedy.
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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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I’ve always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.
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Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.
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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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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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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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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.
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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I don’t want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.
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