
572. Worst Stand-up Gig Experiences (with Amber & Paul)
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The Double Edged Sword of Confirmation Bias
When people, this is sometimes probably about being a woman, when you get on stage, people like, this is going to be shit. You have to really like, convince them it's going to be great. Another rule of doing a standup show is that you need to without pushing it too far, you need to make the audience think that this person is funny. So if there's any doubt that they will think, Oh, no, he is funny. Like confirmation bias. It's a subtly suggest or not so subtly suggest to the audience before the person comes up that they are funny. Don't mix music and comedy. People always think,. Oh, we'll do we'll
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