As someone who’s done stand up, people picture it as feeling cool and funny, but it’s an exercise in public humiliation. Eventually you might get those laughs, and there’s nothing like it when you do, but you’ve embarrassed yourself on stage so many times to get to that point, and at any point due to anything from the crowd that night to how you’re feeling you might wind up back there.
As someone who’s done stand up, people picture it as feeling cool and funny, but it’s an exercise in public humiliation. Eventually you might get those laughs, and there’s nothing like it when you do, but you’ve embarrassed yourself on stage so many times to get to that point, and at any point due to anything from the crowd that night to how you’re feeling you might wind up back there.