[coldtea]

Yeah, so?

Your comment is like saying "CEOs saying the current market is bad for their industry, while ...still running companies?!"

It's not like the observation that a trade is being hurt (in this case, in the kind of disconnect between your job being pointing out absurdity as something that stands out and making it funny, and a society that seems to drown and revel in it) cannot be done by practitioners of said trade while they practice it...

[robertlagrant]

No it's like saying "CEOs saying they're out of a job while being CEOs".

[coldtea]

No, that's the uncharitable, strawman version, that goes for pedanticness over understanding what it means.

It's more like a crooner saying they're being put out of a job after rock n' roll or the Beatlemania, while still having gigs...

Yes, they might still get work and sell some records, but they have a harder time justifying their career, get smaller audiences, and people see them not that culturally or socially relevant anymore...

[robertlagrant]

It's the opposite of a straw man. The previous post was a straw man, deliberately changing the analogy as well as the subject. I restored the analogy.

[aikendrum]

Standup comedian is a freelance job. It's perfectly possible to be unable to perform and still be a comedian, whether due to lack of material or lack of opportunity.

[thesuitonym]

Tale as old as time... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2RYhNhBdw

[googlryas]

Yes. But it is not possible to perform while not being able to perform.

[coldtea]

It's still possible to perform while being less able to get gigs, less able to come up with good jokes, less able to make those jokes relevant, increasingly feeling the jokes are superfluous as everything seems to get at satire-level status by itself, etc - in other words while "not being able to perform" and being slowly put out of a job.

Which was the point (and even made in jest)...