A biography for Aisha Tylerhasn’t been written yet.
“I tell jokes, chat with people, and make stuff.”
“I can tell you this: Stand-up is not glamorous.”
“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.”
“Marriage isn't a carnival ride.”
“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.”
“Comedy's really about not being afraid to look terrible, look ugly, look silly, make fun of yourself. And that's something that women are just not socialized to do. But more women are doing it, and more women have examples of women doing it brilliantly.”
“Dartmouth represented a great opportunity. I wanted to go to the best possible school I could go to.”
“Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.”
“I acted out a lot. I was very nerdy. I was very isolated, which I made up for by kind of talking and trying to entertain people and get them to like me, so I did theatre and improv in high school and college, but always as a hobby.”
“You rarely see women being nice to each other on television anymore.”
“I married my college boyfriend, so I've been with him since I was a kid.”
“I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.”
“I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.”
“I'm trying my hand at directing. I'm doing an independent movie that we haven't started casting yet, but it's like an edgy version of 'Lethal Weapon' and '48 Hours,' only with two women in it.”