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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.
Aisha Tyler
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Aisha Tyler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 18
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San Francisco County
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Aisha Nilaja Tyler
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Every ethnic group has this where people within it will try and tell each other how they should be. So what I would say to other people is to just embrace who you are because you will become instantly happier.
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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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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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I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.
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I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
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I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.
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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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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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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 was born in California, raised a vegetarian, and love science fiction, so don't tell me how I need to be in order to fit your standards. 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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I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
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When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.
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I think diversity in television is important. It's not about trying to fill a quota or satisfy some idea of diversity, but I think what diversity brings to any daypart is more eyeballs, just more opportunity.
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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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I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.
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I love Toronto. I love it. I love Toronto. I love Canada. I can't wait to get back. Can't wait to have some Timbits.
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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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Marriage isn't a carnival ride.
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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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I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.
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