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Anecdata and all, but I've dealt with depression since my teenage years, yet I was a successful improv actor in high school and often have friends telling me th

• maratd 11y ago
  > I was a successful improv actor So you were unhappy and had an interest in developing a talent in pretending you were funny ... huh ... I wonder if that supports my theory. Anyway, I wasn't talking about acting. There's a difference between real life and acting. When you're acting, you know you're acting and so does everyone else. I was talking about the kind of humor where a person can genuinely make light of a bad situation they find themselves in. That's not something someone who's unhappy can do in a real situation. If they could do that, they wouldn't be unhappy ... they would simply make light of their circumstances. You see where I'm going with this?
  • droopybuns 11y ago
    I think this comment is unfair and kind of disrespectful. GuiA is saying that he has evidence that people found him funny, but he didn't feel happy. You're off on some tangent about acting that seems to suggest that acting funny isn't the same as being funny? Different gradients of humor? I have no idea. The point is, GuiA presents a valid counterpoint. No reason to go hostile on the counterpoint. Listen to Marc Maron's WTF podcast. It's a generally safe stereotype to say that many if not most comedians struggle with depression.
  • dasil003 11y ago
    > You see where I'm going with this? I don't see where you're taking them, but you're definitely moving the goalposts.