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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes
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Is Comedy Therapy the Right Thing to Do on Stage?
I want there to be a healthy boundary between me and the audience, I don't want the audience to. Even through doing a show like this, where I'm talking about struggles with mental health in the past and stuff, people can still feel like they are now entitled to step over those boundaries. Sometimes when you are struggling with mental health stuff in your life, or whatever it is, you're going off the rails a bit. You can have a tendency to romanticize it and see yourself as some sort of like Hemingway or whatever from the past. That's not fair. As long as you're not trying to fix yourself, that's more cathartic than anything else.
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