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'Some of my jokes come from empathy, too,' Amer says. 'And the people around me are going to be expressing - through their laughter and their groans and their boos and whatever - it might be a real empathy with how I'm feeling about it.'Īnger is, of course, just one emotion a performer needs to conjure up to really connect with the audience. 'There are some comedians who I actively want to see when something happens that makes me angry, say, politically,' Quirk says. She says the comedy club offers jokes, social criticism and what she calls a 'bonding experience.' Sophie Quirk, author of the book Why Stand-up Matters, is a senior lecturer in drama and theater at the University of Kent in the U.K. And I think you've got to be able to access that side of your psyche and be able to fully express yourself within the confines of it. by which societies release tensions that might otherwise be damaging.' In other words, the communal belly laugh can be cathartic, whether it's about serious issues or spilled milk.Īnger is energy. Klapp wrote that the clever fool is the 'safety valve. In his 1962 book Heroes, Villains, and Fools, sociologist Orrin E. People have sought relief from fools and jesters as far back as the Middle Ages.

Stand-up comedians have long used pain, anger and hurt to get a laugh, whether it's Kinison's screams of outright rage, or the self-deprecating sarcasm of the late Phyllis Diller recounting a story of her husband getting up and putting on his work clothes after she asked him to kiss her goodnight.Īnd stand-up can be as much of a coping mechanism for audiences as it is for comics. 'But the way he presents it is with such charm and appeal that it's endearing, you know, people adore him. 'The thing about Mo is that he has this background of incidents in his life that would cause resentment in somebody,' Dworman says. Stand-up, why I love it so much, because it's - you get paid for doing therapy.

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