Aisha Tyler

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

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.

I like to be nice. I want to be a hero. I want to save people. Or just kill zombies, because they deserve it, because they're already dead and they can't feel it. They don't have feelings.

I want to point out, that this is not my fault that everyone's afraid of me, because I did not kill a couple people the other day.

I talk to grown-ups who are out to have a good time and they want to be spoken to in a different way. I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

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.

One thing we do really well on Archer and one thing I've always tried to do in my comedy and my writing and my podcast is to never speak down to my audience.

I'm just going to be the best version of me that I could possibly be and be as funny as I possibly can. I've just got to be myself and hopefully people will find me. And my audience did find me.

TV always wants more people to be watching.

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.

I always wanted to be as busy as possible so that if one job went away I'd still have plenty of other things to do.

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.

Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful.

They always say some women like to fix people. I don't like to fix people, but you like a challenge.

I think I was only attracted to drunken douches before I got married.

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.\'

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 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.

I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager. And then my closest friend from grade school was a guy.

I was raised by a single dad, so I've always just kind of liked \'guys\' stuff. I think my dad just took me to the things he was interested in.

I've always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

A belief in feminism is a belief in personal freedom - the freedom to live a life free of fear of violence, to select a fulfilling career and be compensated fairly, to choose when to start a family, to marry whom you love. I want everyone, regardless of gender, to live a life free of restriction or fear, able to pursue their own personal brand of happiness and fulfillment.

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.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

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.

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I have to get done.

I liked comedy, but didn't know it was something you could do for a living. I actually wanted to be an attorney.

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.