My comedy partner and I used to riff off each other effortlessly on stage but now we're both trying so hard to be vulnerable and 'real' that our sets feel like therapy sessions and the audience can sense we've lost our rhythm. We're examining our lives through comedy but we've forgotten how to be funny together.
More people experience this than they realize.
The pursuit of meaningful comedy has paradoxically stripped away the spontaneous joy that made their collaboration work.
“Where Are You with Stand-up comedy as examined life?”
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