Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
You know, stand-up comedy is where I pretty much started out.
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it's content, but generic in it's title.
With stand-up, there's a little bit of an exaggerated reality because things have to be manipulated to create comedy, to create jokes.
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
I will always love to perform standup comedy.
Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.
Stand-up comedy is a sickness. Who wouldn't want a room full of people laughing and screaming at you just because of who you are? Nothing is as good, except maybe having a baby.
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
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