Aisha Tyler Quotes

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

In Australia, I wrote lots of little plays and put them on, and then I worked on a few different TV shows, like the Australian equivalent of 'SNL.' I would write and perform all of my characters.

The great thing about stand up is you get to do other things. You get to do your stand up tours but you also get to do 'Have I Got News For You.' You get to do a sitcom, but you also get to do the 'Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice.' I'm easily bored, so I like the variety.

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

I got into stand-up to get on a sitcom.

I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.'

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

I love writing stand-up so much and tinkering and looking for ideas.

I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

If I had to design a career for myself, I would have done comedy.

I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

I like doing a funny show where I don't have to act and fall in love with a girl.

My stand-up has a lot of performance in it, and I loved doing it so much that, after years, I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.

I did comedies for 10 years and I learned a great deal.

If you do a sketch, that's a very short narrative. Stand-up, it's bit-to-bit, minute-long narratives.

I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl.

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a serious actor, but of course I fell in love with it.

First and foremost, I just want to write comedy.

Stand-up is the scariest thing - whether it's TV, movies, improv - stand-up is the worst.

A lot of people who do drama say comedy is the hardest thing, but, not wanting to sound like a bighead, comedy is easy for me, as I've always been fairly funny.

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.