Shayne Smith

So you said earlier that you might say to somebody, don't do it because if they can't handle me saying no, they don't know what it's going to be like to bomb.

Right.

And you said you're not going to want to bomb, and obviously nobody wants to do that.

So what is the thing that pushes you and other comedians through that bombing?

Through that bombing.

You bomb, it's probably the worst feeling you could possibly have.

One of them, yeah.

One of them, one of them.

Yeah, okay, relatively speaking.

But you're not turning around.

So is it because the laugh is so good?

Is it the connection with the audience and helping them find something that you find interesting, interesting is so good that it's worth going through that or what?

For me, it was just the task.

Like this is just a part of it.

Like if I wanted, I'd like set my sights on what I wanted and I just wasn't going to be stopped by how negative one of the possible outcomes was.

Like I'm just not risk averse.

So I was like, oh, the risk almost makes it more fun.

Yeah.

I bet a lot of guys, men specifically, fall into that where they're like, the possibility of bombing is exciting.

The excitement of comedy is what they like about it.