Once
upon a time, I was having a good set at a small nightclub in Georgia. I was in
my angry phase and that was really working for me. Someone in the audience
asked, “Do you hate everyone?”
I said,
“No, I don’t hate everyone. Just people like you.”
I know
it doesn’t sound funny at all, but people were laughing. Then I said, “I’m
kidding. That was just a joke. Have you noticed that when people say something
was just a joke, it usually wasn’t?”
More
laughter. Once in a while when you do standup, you can say anything and people
will laugh. I even blew a few punchlines that night and people still laughed. On
the other hand, when you tell lots of jokes, some of them are going to go
wrong.
