So why stand up comedy? Why would you want to get on stage and make yourself uncomfortable and maybe bomb and probably bomb in order to try and make people laugh? Why would anybody want to do that? The answer is pretty simple. It's a ton of fun when it works. It's got to be at least the hardest drug in the world, getting on stage and getting people to laugh at things.

It's a great way to get your thoughts out. It's a great way to try out things. It's a great way to explore yourself. A lot of times I'm at bars, or I'm at parties, and people ask me what I do. And I say I'm a stand up comic, and they go, Oh, man, that's amazing. I never had the guts to do that.

I could never do that. Well, the truth is that you could you just don't want to, and maybe you don't want to because you just don't maybe you're not into getting in front of people. Maybe you're not into talking to people, people have different interests, but maybe you actually want to do it. Maybe you're actually a little bit interested in doing it and maybe you're not doing it because you're actually kind of afraid. And here's the thing. Stand up.

Comedy is the most direct feedback you will get it's direct feedback on your thoughts. It's direct feedback on your ideas. It's direct feedback on who you are. And as the ancient adage goes, Know thyself, you will understand so much more about yourself. People are always afraid of bombing. That's what they say, when I'm at these parties.

They go, oh, man, what if I bomb? The truth is this you're gonna bomb. Learning how to do stand up comedy is like learning how to box, you're gonna get punched, you're gonna get up on stage sometimes, and it's not gonna work, you're gonna think you have a great joke, you're gonna think you have a great idea. You think, Oh, my gosh, this is gonna be so funny. You get on stage and it doesn't work. Who knows why, but this process is going to help you examine it, it's going to help you understand it's going to help you understand yourself.

You know, a lot of people do stand up for different reasons, sometimes their faults from childhood, but they never got enough love. Maybe that's me. And they get on stage and they want to get the Adoration of the crowd. Maybe that's you. It's fine. It's easy to do when you get it to work, right.

Sometimes people like to do stand up comedy because they like the attention Sometimes they like to do stand up comedy because honestly, it helps them meet women, sometimes or men. If you're, if you're, you know about persuasion, sometimes they'd like to do it because it helps them try out ideas for public speaking, sometimes they have to public speak, and they just want and a trial of how a very concentrated amount of its stand up comedy is more difficult than public speaking. It's actually a very concentrated bit of public speaking, boiled down to doing one thing, but there's many reasons people want to do it. And the thing is, whatever your reasoning is, it is a great place to learn about yourself, try out different ideas, and ultimately grow very quickly as a person, you will never have a better sense of self than after you've done stand up comedy, and especially after you've bombed failure and the embracing of it is very important to stand up comedy.

Many people live their lives in quiet small boxes of fear that there is a lot of things that people would do. Maybe you're one of them, but they're afraid to do if you're sitting here and looking at this course and thinking why should I do stand up comedy? You know, if you're taking this course and wondering, why am I doing it? What am I going to get out of it? I would encourage you to examine this specific thing. Think about yourself, the most successful comedians always do.

They start out on stage talking about themselves talking about who they are, where they're from, what they're doing. stand up comedy, ultimately, is the exploration of self because the self can only be explored with others. Bruce Lee famously said, if you want to know yourself, observe yourself with others. Well, a great way to do that is by getting on stage and trying to talk about what you think is funny, a unique perspective on the world, trying to refine and focus that unique perspective, and to try it out in front of others. And when you get their feedback, you'll know so much more about yourself and your ideas. So that's why stand up comedy.

Also, it's really freaking fun. You'll meet a lot of really cool people. You'll have a great time and laugh all the time. So I've been doing it for 17 years, and I love doing it. I'm going to get up tonight in fact onstage So anyway, that's why stand up comedy. Thank you for taking the course.