just seeing her on jimmy kimmels show and she is:

smart (running circles around the men around her)
quick with her wit (running circles around the men)
bold (takes it and makes it her own)
fine (beautiful)

post a pic

she just got cast in Friends (but I don't watch that show much)

yes indeed...she's beautiful

I've always loved this lady. She cracks my shit up. And she reminds me a lot of my cousin Jen.

I'm sorry its tyler not taylor... Taylor is who Charlton Heston played...right?

Aisha Tyler got her acting start at the J. Eugene McAteer School of the Arts in San Francisco, when, bored with the regular coursework, she started cutting class to sneak into Improv comedy sessions. Eventually the teachers got tired of wondering who the tall black girl with the bizarre sense of humor was and asked her to stay.

Despite the spotty attendance, Aisha went on to study Political Science at Dartmouth College. While there she continued performing sketch and improv, as well as teaching snowboarding courses. In the morsel of spare time remaining, she pursued her love of music — recording an album with a campus acapella group and becoming front woman for a blues band, covering artists as diverse as Stevie Ray Vaughn, Koko Taylor, the Doobie Brothers and Joan Armatrading.

After graduation Aisha started working as an advertising executive in San Francisco. It took her only months to realize that while corporate life was paying the bills, the suits were starting to chafe. She attacked comedy full time, working clubs and colleges in thirty states before settling in Los Angeles.

The critical acclaim has been effusive. Esquire called Aisha “sweetly wicked,” designating her one of its “Women We Love”. TV Guide called her one of cable’s “In Crowd.” Maxim made her one of its vaunted “Hot 100.” Vibe crowned her “the next Queen of Comedy.” And Tongue gushes, “[she’s] that impossible combination of hot-as-the-day-is-long and so cool… the most unlikely crossover since Charlie Pride.”

In addition to her hot-streak stint as host of E! Entertainment’s Emmy-nominated Talk Soup, during which both viewership and creative quality soared, Aisha has appeared on numerous television shows, including multiple appearances on The Tonight Show, The Today Show, Politically Incorrect and The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. She’s enjoyed equal success as an actor, appearing on, among others, HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and the films Showtime and the upcoming The Santa Clause 2. She wrote, produced and directed the edgy independent short The Whipper, which she also starred in, and won an NAACP Image Award for her work in the critically acclaimed play Moose Mating. She has contributed articles to Glamour and Jane magazines, and to the upcoming book This Day in the Life of American Women. Aisha recently stepped down as host of syndicated dating show The Fifth Wheel to pursue film projects.

Aisha currently makes her home in Los Angeles. She continues to perform her unique brand of razor-sharp, raucous comedy in venues across the country, including the world-famous Improvisation in LA, the Bellagio and Paris resorts in Las Vegas, Caroline’s in New York, and colleges nationwide. She is currently at work on new film and television projects.

ufoclub said:

shes funny what happend to her on talk soup? i dont even think talk soup comes on anymore

gosh

MrBliss said:

Oh my...

althom said:

I second that emotion-Smokey Robinson

as my grandma would say...whatta pretty colored gurl...

I've been thought she was one of the finest things walking this earth after seeing her on Talk Soup a long time ago. Hmmm, the thangs I could do with that!!

ufoclub said:

Good goobly goop... :O



Very pretty...

She's gorgeous, but why do they need to pose in their undies...

sag10 said:

Cuz it's Maxim...lol ...All the women who pose in that mag do so in their undies...it's like an ultra-softporn version of posing for Playboy, I think. Many women in the entertainment industry will agree to pose in Maxim cuz they think it'll help them further their career.

But believe it or not, I agree witcha...no need for undies, she's pretty enough without them...

Um, you know what I meant right there... :O

wellbeyond said:

Freespirit said:

You know what I meant, too...lol

Freespirit said:

wellbeyond said:

I didn't know that about Maxim, in fact I have never read Maxim... So thanks for the education..

DAMN, she is FINER than I thought!


I watched her on "The Fifth Wheel" when she was the hostess. Sometimes she wore some nice outfits there.. other times, it was like, um.. someone dressed her.. in a dark closet..


& what's this???
she's going to be on FRIENDS???

WHAT?
a NON-CAUCASIAN person as a "regular" on Friends?

Damn, if this is true, then it won't be long before PRINCE has his own talk show!

wellbeyond said:

Sag...

sag10 said:

Maxim is a hilarious magazine...lol...but yeah, they do overload it with the cheesecake photos...

Isnt that Taylor pic of the one who is on "Girlfriends" and not the Talk Soup host?

Freespirit said:

LoL..

You constantly remind me why I love you...

This woman's a genius. They need to take her ass off "Friends" and give her a talk show or something..when she was on Talk Soup, she was the funniest thing since when Greg Kinnear first started on the show (and he used to be FONNY). I'd love to see her get huge based on her comedy first and her looks second - she's hot, but she's even a hundred times wittier.

Tyler Mixes Things Up
in 'Friends' Role
Comic plays love interest on
show with few nonwhite faces
By Lynn Elber
Associated Press

Aisha Tyler looks at a reporter's hand extended in greeting and declines to shake. Is the new addition to "Friends" unfriendly? No, just considerate.

"I have a cold," she says apologetically, clutching a tissue. It takes more than a minor bug to keep Tyler down, however. The actress and comedian is energetic, smart and, sniffles or not, a real stunner.

Tyler, who begins a four-week run on "Friends" starting Thursday, April 24 (8 p.m. EST), also happens to be among the very few nonwhite love interests — or faces, for that matter — to grace the popular NBC comedy.

Ross (David Schwimmer) and Joey (Matt LeBlanc) compete for the attentions of Tyler's character, a sexy paleontologist who shares Ross' passion for dinosaurs.

She's not the first nonwhite girlfriend on "Friends," Tyler points out — Asian-American actress Lauren Tom and Gabrielle Union, who's black, have appeared. But Tyler has a sustained role in a show that's been criticized for whitewashing multiethnic Manhattan.

"The role wasn't written particularly for an African-American. I think they were just trying to cast the right actress," Tyler said.

She nearly didn't survive hearing the good news from her manager, delivered by cell phone while Tyler was driving in Los Angeles traffic.

"I screeched over and practically killed three people. And I started banging on my car and it was new and I was thinking I probably shouldn't bang on my car," she said. "It was the biggest thing in the whole world."

Bigger even than her job as the host of E! Entertainment's "Talk Soup." In 2001, she became its first female host (following Greg Kinnear, John Henson and Hal Sparks).

The 11-year-old comedy show ended last year but helped make her a media darling: Esquire magazine deemed her one of the "Women We Love" and Maxim listed her among its "Hot 100." It also won her the devotion of fans, including high school and college boys who write such sweet nothings as "You're the funniest chick I've ever seen" and offer to buy her a beer.

When Tyler tried out for "Talk Soup," she thought the show would never hire a black woman. "I was just going to go in and have a fun time."

Given a shot as guest host, she drew such an overwhelming response from viewers that she was hired full time. Witty AND sexy — what's not to like? Others appreciated what she stood for as well.

"What's wonderful is there are people who would write in saying, 'It's so great to see a smart, offbeat black woman on TV.' ... But I don't think I set out to have a standard-bearer career. I just set out to be funny and communicate with people."

Being an agent of social change is "a heavy burden," she said, jokingly. But she knows that pop-culture images carry weight.

"Typically, black women are not seen as attractive in white culture, so maybe it's a coup for a black woman who isn't light to appeal to black and white men," she told Heart & Soul magazine last year. "Maybe it's a coup for us that we start to be seen as attractive — not as pretty for black girls, but just beautiful, period."

The 6-foot Tyler is accustomed to being in the vanguard, by choice or not. Her family (her father is a photographer, her mother a teacher) stretched itself financially to send her to a private school in San Francisco, where she was at times the only black student.

"AND 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," she recalled over afternoon tea at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

"It was very alienating and I could have just laid down and died. Instead I said, 'I'm going to make friends.' I was forced to intersect and interact and assimilate with a lot of other kids."

As a performer, she said, that has given her the ability to reach out across ethnic and gender lines. Hard work was also part of the formula: After graduating as a political science major from Dartmouth College (where she met her husband, attorney Jeff Tietjens), she worked days as an advertising executive in San Francisco and nights honing her stand-up skills at clubs.

Tyler, 32, hasn't abandoned her work ethic. Besides "Friends," there are movies (including "The Santa Clause 2" and the upcoming "Never Die Alone" with David Arquette) and a "comedic, post-feminist anti-'The Rules'" book she's writing — which she intends as an antidote to the best-selling dating manual.

The next step? She admires Jennifer Aniston's career but has her eye on another Hollywood role model.

"I'm looking forward to doing work like Eddie Murphy did early in his career — action-comedy films," Tyler said. "I'd like to do that because no woman's done it yet. It'd be cool to do something no one's done before."

For Tyler, being a groundbreaker is second nature.

Essence said:

Didn't Gabrielle Union get the same exact plotline in Friends? Two of the male cast both dating her same time? What are they trying to say?