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by parse_tree 6096 days ago
I love comedy, and would love to give it a try myself but (a) my sense of humour is very unusual and there's many things I laugh at hysterically that most people don't get, and (b) would be too nervous (sober anyways!).

An example of (a), I was at Subway the other day, and a 20-something girl was in front of me. The guy asked what kind of cheese she wanted, and she sort of hesitated and said "the uh, uh, the um, white triangles", which sent me into a fit of laughter, I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard (can't wait to go to Subway again so I can use it). But everyone I told since sort of looked at me like "Uh, okay?". And I can imagine how well something like that would go over in front of a crowd of strangers, told by a scared shitless comedian at his first gig!

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As Mitch Hedberg once said, "Drinking for the comedian is like stretching for the athlete."