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The Quicker You Develop a Thick Skin, The Better
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The Quicker You Develop a Thick Skin, The Better
The comedy world has a lot of violence in its vocabulary.
If you're doing really well, they'll say "You killed!"
If not, they'll say, "You died up there!"
The first comic to go up is said to "Bite the bullet", or "fall on the grenade".
You're not going to know if a joke works until you tell it.
So, you've got to muster up some courage to tell it to a roomful of strangers. And more likely than not, it won't be funny the first time out...more.
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