comedy

i think stand-up comedy should be serious. i don't mean ‘sound serious.’ it should just be serious. it should expose the genuine conflict between the situation of some sort of an inescapable reality and an honest single-mindedness to fight it by executing one’s maladaptation. ‘just for this?’ ‘yes, it has to be.’ also a reminder of the abduction in King of Comedy. i stand up, a tiny unbending loner, my audience all being seated. i’m given a chance. if my way of reductio ad absurdum sounds reasonable, you approve it with an authentic laugh. unfazed, or join me. for it’s one personal revolt versus the reality or a collection nature, a stand-up often echoes the structure of morality, or our ever more technical world, and reveals a personal negligible struggle buried in collective and/or modern life.