Turns Out, I’m Just Some Guy
9 min readNov 17, 2022
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I wonder if everyone feels the same hubris I do
I remember clearly standing near the side of the stage at a comedy show, while another comedian was on stage, and he was killing it. I had been on before him, and I viscerally felt the difference in the mildly amused response I had got compared to the laughs and applause breaks this guy was getting. It stung, in a way, every laugh that…