“Who’s there?”
“Who cares?”
“I do, especially if I’m going to let you in.”
“I’m your past baggage and future allure that you can do what you want with.”
“So I can distort, exaggerate, and flat out lie in my comedic journey.”
“Yes you can, and in the words of a friend, nothing matters. I’ll check in next December and I hope to see progress. Don’t open the door, but remember my voice. You need to create, your self centered ego foggy addled brain craves it. Bye for now.”
If selling your soul for progress was that easy, but it’s not and 9.9 out of 10 the chances are I won’t get famous from comedy or my other creative pursuits.
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At the Beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic for a month I signed up for online therapy. I’ve seen psychiatrists since I was 17, but never bothered with therapy. In the first session I told the therapist I lost my sense of humor. I used to make people laugh but no longer had that skill. The therapist didn’t comment much on that point, and I’m not sure why I felt that way, but I did.
In times of stress and uncertainty maybe people feel less inclined to hear jokes or to make people laugh. Growing up I was a class clown, and I got attention that way. Even as an adult I do not try to control group conversations but will blurt out something funny at certain points. I may not be that good of a listener, but saying something funny sticks in people’s mind more so than a monologue or someone dominating a conversation.
Growing up I watched a lot of slapstick comedies like Airplane, The Naked Gun series, Eddie Murphy movies, and other hits from the 80’s that are now considered tasteless or offensive. They can’t repeat that type of comedy now because society has changed, and it’s good to try to be inclusive to everyone. I don’t see why comedy can’t do that. A lot of the offensive comedy was mean spirited. A comedian would pick on someone that looked funny in the audience and make fun of them. It doesn’t have to be that way.
I did stand up once and it was for five minutes. There were only three tables of people including my friends. I did poop jokes, and I got applause. It was self appreciating humor, and I didn’t have to make fun of anyone else. It was filmed but lost at this point. If I do stand up in person I would somehow try to make it edgy or dirty but without making fun of people different than me. Also in one of Seinfeld’s ‘Driving in Cars With Comedians’ he stated comedy doesn’t all have to be true in a stand up routine, it’s not confession time, or memoir sharing. The goal is to be funny. And I like to do try stand up again in the near future.
In the meantime for reasons of stupidity I signed up to be a facebook creator. I need to get a ridiculous amount of views to actually get money from it, but it has made me post a lot of reels. On Wednesdays I’ll do a comedy reel. These are for 90 seconds so you need to be quick. I will make these clean, I don’t want to stick my neck out too much. Also I need to wake up a little before doing them. I look and sound like a sleepy head. What’s cool though is recording it first you can do retakes until you’re happy. I think it’s better to do the 90 seconds in one clip though. The two I’ve done so far are embedded below from instagram, not facebook, so the view counts are different. Cheers to comedy!
