What's something you think to yourself about someone that you could never say to their face?

[Anonymous]

[WhiteSteve]

One of my good friends who is also just a loser at life and is down pretty bad now…he wants to be a stand-up comedian. And he wants he and I to do a podcast, some kind of 90s nostalgia, just everything that what was cool to us from like kindergarten to college.

The podcast would be fun to do, but we’d have like six listeners, all of whom know us personally, lmao. I don’t see that taking off. I also don’t think we’re anywhere near as funny and entertaining as he thinks we are😂

But the news I really couldn’t give him: his stand-up is AWFUL. Absolutely stinks. He performs at an open mic comedy club that’s just other aspiring comedians, and he’ll send me these video feeds of his set. There’s a panel that will give constructive feedback afterwards. They’re too charitable to him, too, lmfao.

He tells me I should try my hand at it, as well. I think I have a better understanding of the pretty wide gap between being one of the funny people in your circle of friends or at your workplace, and being someone who should be doing stand-up comedy for an audience of strangers coming in cold. So I use the 90 minute drive to his area as an excuse to politely know that difference for myself without implying that it’s something he should know, too, hahaha.

But he’s really bad. Some of it is for sure experience and nerves. He’s not himself and he’s reading off notes, he doesn’t have his stories totally mapped out, so it really hurts his delivery; it makes him sound like someone acting in a movie playing basically him as a character: a nervous noob who’s unsure of everything coming out of his mouth and battling stage fright.

That’s all forgivable and maybe can be improved with time and reps. It’s the material…. OH MY GOD.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/4scSow85qi0

[Asker]

I see whatcha mean lol. Why is he down bad at life otherwise

[WhiteSteve]

Combination of a shitty ex-wife/bad divorce and him just generally sucking at having jobs and working. Lives in New Hampshire with no car, has to Uber everywhere for crazy money. Child support, all that. Let his ex-wife stay in an expensive house they should’ve sold and split the revenue on because his girls love it there and he didn’t want to displace them. Ex barely lets him see his daughters. Great dad, too, for all his other shortcomings. So he’s just dead broke and I don’t know how he’d ever break out of the cycle. I’ve been helping to keep him afloat with a few bucks here and there; he’s pretty hard up

[rgb008]

"look at you... rattling around in your own skull like a key loose in one of my many empty drawers... making too much noise... but incapable of turning a single lock mechanism... you call yourself the master lock smith of every room you enter... yet cannot find the main entrance to common sense with a compass, map OR flashlight... you are a deadbolt with no door... heavy... complicated.. completely useless.. and rusted shut with your own inadequacy... the walking epitome of lobotomy..."

[NathanDavis]

"your breath stinks..."

I would very much rather to inform them of that... while looking away or to the side, something other than to their face, lol

[7Phoenix7]

[NathanDavis]

[7Phoenix7]