More comedy
During this past year, I was taken out to a few comedy nights to see amateur stand up comedians perform their acts before an audience. I fully admit, this was never something that I had patronized in the past, but these experiences left me with a sense of what comedy really is. Like the tragic and happy masks that are the symbol of theater, this went into these realms. In all happiness is sadness, and all sadness is happiness. Yin and yang. The first few rounds definitely had their share of sadness. We were in the basement of a building which doubled as a bowling alley / rock club with chairs assembled around a makeshift stage. Here the amateur, hipster comics would step onto the dimly lit stage, depending on their height would be brushing an air duct pipe with their heads, and entertain the modest group before them. As they were amateurs, their material was not delivered the best way possible, and more often then not their efforts we...