This got me thinking. There are lots of similarities between standup comedy and sex:
- People think it's really easy, until they have to get on stage and do it in front of a crowd of drunken men.
- Neither is really that suitable for a child's birthday party.
- Most people could do it well enough to please themselves, but it's hard to make a living from it.
- Getting good at it tends to involve staying up late at night, and possibly drinking too much.
- If it's not enjoyable without lots of complicated props, then it's unlikely to be much fun with lots of complicated props involved.
- Every generation thinks they're doing something new and special, but are basically rehashing what's been done before.
- Occasionally somebody much younger than you will be strangely creative, and you'll find yourself both envious and appalled.
- The Seventies: double acts on stage, wife-swapping at home. Related, perhaps?
- There are lots of examples to watch on Youtube, some of which are professionally produced, and others badly filmed with a camera phone.
- If you have to explain what you're doing, chances are you're doing it wrong.
- People don't commonly espouse the belief that women just aren't good at it.
- You can do one of them in a bar in Singapore without the police being involved, but not the other.
- It's ok to have sex without an audience.
- Despite what I said about props, you can have satisfactory stand-up comedy that includes an acoustic guitar.
- Apart from slapstick, stand-up finds it much harder to transcend language barriers.
- 'Killing' can be a good thing when performing stand-up.
- If you write down all the good things that you did in a notebook, and refer to them later, that's acceptable for comedy. Not so great in a bedroom context.
- There's a 12 week course at the University of Brighton for comedy.
- You can talk about your sex life while you're doing comedy. Vice versa, not so much.
- There's more pressure to write your own material if you're doing stand-up.
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