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<font color=yellow>Aisha Tyler</font> (Mia Dickerson) has dished it out: CSI has the best caterers.</p>
"I don't want to rag on somebody's food. But on the CSI set, they have homemade soup every day — which I know doesn't sound exciting, but it is always good because they keep that set cold to keep all the bodies, livers and maggots fresh," Tyler told <font color=yellow>Rochell D. Thomas</font> at TV Guide Online.</p>
The former Talk Soup host can be seen almost everywhere nowadays, but despite the busy schedule, she's showing no signs of slowing down. "It's really exhausting. But [the shows] work it out, then they call me and tell me when to show up and where," the actress said.</p>
Tyler started out with humorous guest roles on shows like Friends and Curb Your Enthusiasm, but the former stand-up comedienne has recently focused more on drama. "I did a very intense episode of Nip/Tuck [last] spring. I played a Somali model who was a victim of female genital mutilation. A lot of people saw that, and I got calls from four dramas within a week."</p>
Two of those four dramas include CSI, where her character is a DNA analyst, and FOX's 24, where she portrays data analyst Marianne Taylor. "Someone asked me the other day, 'Are you being typecast as a scientist?' And I was like, 'Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so,'" Tyler said. The two roles require rather difficult technical dialogue, but that doesn't faze the actress, who admitted, "The more technical dialogue tends to be on CSI. But I wanted to be an engineer, so none of the dialogue is difficult for me."</p>
With such a busy schedule, some actresses might worry about stress lines, but Tyler is planning on making lemon out of lemonades. "I'm just going to let it show. [...] In 20 or 30 years, directors are going to be looking for women to play mothers and nobody's going to look like a mother. Then you're going to have women who look 30 playing the mothers of other 30-year-old women because they can't find anybody who looks normal."</p>
To read the full interview, where Tyler discusses her other roles, click here.</p><center></center>
"I don't want to rag on somebody's food. But on the CSI set, they have homemade soup every day — which I know doesn't sound exciting, but it is always good because they keep that set cold to keep all the bodies, livers and maggots fresh," Tyler told <font color=yellow>Rochell D. Thomas</font> at TV Guide Online.</p>
The former Talk Soup host can be seen almost everywhere nowadays, but despite the busy schedule, she's showing no signs of slowing down. "It's really exhausting. But [the shows] work it out, then they call me and tell me when to show up and where," the actress said.</p>
Tyler started out with humorous guest roles on shows like Friends and Curb Your Enthusiasm, but the former stand-up comedienne has recently focused more on drama. "I did a very intense episode of Nip/Tuck [last] spring. I played a Somali model who was a victim of female genital mutilation. A lot of people saw that, and I got calls from four dramas within a week."</p>
Two of those four dramas include CSI, where her character is a DNA analyst, and FOX's 24, where she portrays data analyst Marianne Taylor. "Someone asked me the other day, 'Are you being typecast as a scientist?' And I was like, 'Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don't think so,'" Tyler said. The two roles require rather difficult technical dialogue, but that doesn't faze the actress, who admitted, "The more technical dialogue tends to be on CSI. But I wanted to be an engineer, so none of the dialogue is difficult for me."</p>
With such a busy schedule, some actresses might worry about stress lines, but Tyler is planning on making lemon out of lemonades. "I'm just going to let it show. [...] In 20 or 30 years, directors are going to be looking for women to play mothers and nobody's going to look like a mother. Then you're going to have women who look 30 playing the mothers of other 30-year-old women because they can't find anybody who looks normal."</p>
To read the full interview, where Tyler discusses her other roles, click here.</p><center></center>