Aisha was in town a few weeks ago to promote her directorial debut Axis. It was really good (separate review coming) and awesome to meet her, especially applauding a funny person blossoming into a Jane-of-all-Trades! She definitely liked the Lana shirt I wore on purpose.
When the moving ended, Aisha participated in a Q&A about the movie. How it ended according to a couple audience members got me to re-think it. I’m very glad for Mrs. Tyler in all the praise she’s been getting from festivals. Originally, Aisha figured the movie would just be something she’d show to friends and family.
Lastly, I thanked her for being at the Archer live show a couple years ago. She remembered the sign-language team and how the cast, namely her and H. Jon Benjamin, tried to say the filthiest things they could imagine just to see how ASL translated it.
If you get to see Aisha’s stand-up, I haven’t, take a chance. I imagine it’s pretty clever given her love of videogames and other elements of nerd culture she’s into; let’s address the elephant in the room here, they’re a couple things one doesn’t expect an American Black woman to be into despite nerd culture being universal and open to all. So should she perform at Moon Tower or Cap City, I’ll be there.