Career
Her career in television took off in 2001 with jobs as the host of Talk Soup and the reality-dating series The Fifth Wheel, although Talk Soup was cancelled the following year and Tyler left The Fifth Wheel in 2002 to pursue other interests. Tyler has devoted a significant amount of her time to independent projects, including a role in the play Moose Mating, for which she received an NAACP Image Award. She also wrote, directed, and starred in the independent short film The Whipper.
Moving into acting, Tyler featured in Friends, having a recurring role as Charlie Wheeler, Joey's and then Ross' girlfriend in the ninth and tenth seasons. She followed this up with guest spots on CSI: Miami and Nip/Tuck, as well as balancing season-long recurring roles on both CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and 24 during the 2004-2005 TV season. She also filmed her own sitcom pilot for CBS, which was not picked up. She has guest-starred on MADtv.
Following her regular role on the CBS series Ghost Whisperer during its first season, Tyler appeared in several movies, including The Santa Clause 2, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, .45, and the comedy Balls of Fury. In 2007, she filmed the thriller Death Sentence and the crime drama Black Water Transit. She also continues to appear on television, with appearances on Boston Legal, Reno 911!, The Boondocks, and as a guest movie critic on several episodes of At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, filling in for the absent Roger Ebert while he recuperated from surgery.
Tyler has moved into print media as a regular contributor to Glamour, Jane and Entertainment Weekly magazines. Her first book, Swerve: A Guide to the Sweet Life for Postmodern Girls was released in January 2004. Tyler also plays on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Futures Without Violence charity (formerly the Family Violence Prevention Fund). She also made a guest appearance on Kanye West's single, "Slow Jamz", which also featured Twista and Jamie Foxx. Philanthropy and charity work is very important to Aisha, and she regularly does volunteer work for The American Red Cross, The Trust for Public Land, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and The International Rescue Committee.
Tyler appeared in a nude pictorial, along with other celebrities, in the May 2006 issue of Allure. Allure's annual Nude Issue raises money to combat skin cancer.
In May 2009 it was announced that ABC had given Tyler her own talk show pilot, The Aisha Tyler Show.
In early May 2010 she presented Bungie's "Welcome to the Beta" video for Halo: Reach. She has confirmed that she has begun work as a voice actor for the game Halo: Reach.
In August 2010 Tyler began appearing in a recurring guest spot on The Stephanie Miller Show. The segment is named "Tuesdays With Tyler." Tyler appears either in studio or via the phone when she is not otherwise committed to one of her acting roles. While Hal Sparks is out of the country, Tyler is filling in as the third member of the Stephanie Miller Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour on three shows in August 2011. In October, with the announcement of Tyler's casting on CBS' The Talk, she announced on The Stephanie Miller Show that while she would no longer be able to join them in studio, she would still contribute via phone, and Miller hinted that she would rejoin the Sexy Liberal tour, although no date has been set for her return.
Starting July 26, 2011, Tyler started her own weekly podcast, Girl on Guy, where she interviews her favorite celebrity friends and discusses topics guys love. According to her site, aishatyler.com, Girl on Guy is available on her website for download using iTunes, mp3, and RSS. The show launched as the #4 comedy podcast on iTunes and currently is the #2 comedy podcast, and the #7 overall podcast on iTunes. The first "weekly installment" (according to Tyler) of Girl on Guy with guest H. Jon Benjamin started July 25, 2011, the second with the host of Current TV's former show InfoMania Bert Erlich debuted August 1, 2011, and the third with Archer creator Adam Reed debuted August 9, 2011.
In October 2011 it was announced that Aisha would join the cast of The Talk as a permanent co-host, replacing Holly Robinson Peete. Her first full week as a co-host lasted from Monday, October 24, 2011, until Friday, October 28, 2011.
Tyler presented Ubisoft's press conference at E3 2012 in June, which received some backlash from fans who didn't believe Tyler was a gamer. This caused Tyler to respond with a poem about how she's been playing video games "since you were a twinge in the left side of your daddy's underoos."
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