being funny
I really get the feeling sometimes that people don't like it when I'm nice. It's boring to them. I don't like sugar-coating things so guess what, it saves me an extra step, I can be just directly honest now.

I think comedians get into the habit of making people laugh from an early age in order to get people to like them, or to get attention, or whatever. When that habit grows over time alot of weight rests on it. You start getting friends based on their being entertained by you, so when you fail to be entertaining anymore they leave. It's sort of a depressing thing, and you don't know which side to show to which people, what the results will be, or whatever. You are always checking and obsessing. And if you're able to get rid of that neurosis then in the end you're just left with a set of skills that was initially created by a desperate need to fit in.