The barrier to entry in comedy isn't being funny, it's in gaining an audience that trusts your work. It takes mental energy to watch stand-up comedy. If it's n

The barrier to entry in comedy isn't being funny, it's in gaining an audience that trusts your work. It takes mental energy to watch stand-up comedy. If it's not funny, I've wasted mental energy in watching them and trying to get the jokes, so I generally only watch the names I know. While many stand-ups may be funny, it takes a lot of work for them to get the name-recognition required to actually draw a large crowd. Agreed RE Colbert - it almost feels like wathing a totally different comic (it kinda is - he's playing a whole different bit now and his fake-pundit style had years to grow and develop). Struggling to bring this back to AI...agreed we're off-topic here :)