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I like grown up comedy.
Aisha Tyler
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Aisha Tyler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 18
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Aisha Nilaja Tyler
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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.
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Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
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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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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, 'You just have to keep getting up'. And I look back and they were right. They were all right.
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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. So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don't want to ever give up any part of it. 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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Karaoke is the great equalizer.
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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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Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
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I visualize myself winning the Olympic Pentathlon, inventing a phone that can be controlled by brain waves, or doing the laundry. 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 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 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 - whereas regular people tend to run away - because the embarrassing story is always going to be the really funny story.
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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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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, You are going to fail, and anyone who is success has powered through many, many failures.
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Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.
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I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
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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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On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.
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Sometimes the mistake I see people make is thinking that they're always going to be up, and I think that's impossible for anyone.
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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, Trust me, you don't want to have to actually interact with these people.
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