Today I was watching this 'Just for Laughs' episode which brings in shows of various stand-up comedians and it suddenly hit me. How does this whole thing work? I mean, I know how it works...(duh!). But what is it like? It's another thing to go watch a movie....be it a thriller or what not, you don't exactly know what to expect. But with stand up acts. You do. Exactly.
You are going there to laugh. Worse, you are prepared to laugh. No really! You go in with the idea of going someplace, and laughing. Then it makes me wonder, isn't laughter supposed to be...I don't know...spontaneous? In this case, you've lost the spontaneity for sure. Is it even really funny any longer?
Has our life grown so lack luster that we are forced to go watch a show to laugh? Something somewhere seems to have gone terribly wrong. If you think back and try to figure out how it all started...the stand up comedy acts that is...I'd say it was the court jester who started it all. But the very same question comes to haunt you.
Why aren't people generally happy? Why do they have to go borrow a few moments of happiness in their entire life? Would it be easier to live in a utopian world where everyone is happy, everyone is good?
Or is it that there is no such thing as too much happiness? Too much fun? Which is why, stand up comedians will always be in business.
You are going there to laugh. Worse, you are prepared to laugh. No really! You go in with the idea of going someplace, and laughing. Then it makes me wonder, isn't laughter supposed to be...I don't know...spontaneous? In this case, you've lost the spontaneity for sure. Is it even really funny any longer?
Has our life grown so lack luster that we are forced to go watch a show to laugh? Something somewhere seems to have gone terribly wrong. If you think back and try to figure out how it all started...the stand up comedy acts that is...I'd say it was the court jester who started it all. But the very same question comes to haunt you.
Why aren't people generally happy? Why do they have to go borrow a few moments of happiness in their entire life? Would it be easier to live in a utopian world where everyone is happy, everyone is good?
Or is it that there is no such thing as too much happiness? Too much fun? Which is why, stand up comedians will always be in business.
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