Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyleris an American talk show host, actress, comedian, author, producer, writer, and director. She is known for portraying Andrea Marino in the first season of Ghost Whisperer, voicing Lana Kane in Archer, and portraying Mother Nature in the Santa Clause film series, as well as recurring roles in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Talk Soup, Friends and Criminal Minds. She is a co-host of CBS's The Talk, and the current host of Whose Line is it Anyway?, and has hosted...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth18 September 1970
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
I have one girlfriend who is dating right now - she's divorced - and she's on Tinder, so we play Tinder. I know that's not a real game, but it's my favorite thing to do.
I really do know football.
I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop.
Maybe the nails are a little stubby and gnawed on, but I definitely do not have man hands.
Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so.
You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.
But I love stand-up, and it's where I came from creatively, so it's something I never want to walk away from.
Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
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.
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
I love it when I come across a word I don't know. And I would never treat my audience like they weren't smart enough to come along with me.
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.