Vulnerability and The Honest Comic

To me, an honest comedian is a self-documentor and a self ethnographer.
 An honest comic analyses and deconstructs that which is not spoken.

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Being honest is the only true edgy that is left, because being absolutely honest is what makes people uncomfortable. 
Speaking from your soul makes people uncomfortable.

They can see the vulnerability and they can identify with it on a basic human level. They also instinctualy know how much balls it takes to do that.

There is a deep vulnerability to being honest and exposing that vulnerability is the risk.
 The risk of greatly humiliating yourself and that risk is high.

The reward is just as great, if not greater. 
The reward is absolute freedom to be who you are 100%. Its almost therapeutic and cathartic when it works. To both performer and audience.

PETE SSERWANGA

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