starrynight

I wouldn't do something I didn't enjoy at all just because I was paid to do it, and someone who just did that probably wouldn't be very good at it. Some may take it very seriously, but it wouldn't surprise me if most comedians did jokes about being a comedian, about trying to make people laugh. Most comedians make jokes about their own life.

djchameleon

People do things they don't enjoy all the time especially if they are being paid to do it


I personally wouldn't but there are average joes going into a 9 to 5 on a daily basis that hate what they are doing for a living but they need to make ends meet and/or they are in love with the lifestyle that the money they make provides for them even though comedians usually don't make much starting out but yeah I agree with Il Duce. It is well documented that there are comedians that are super depressed and have so many emotional issues.

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Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

Scarlett O'Hara

What do you base that on? Obviously not statistics.

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Dirty

Opinion. I think women are way more insecure, especially in their teenage and young adult years.

Scarlett O'Hara

I beg to differ.

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TockTockTock

Insecurity is a common occurrence in all teenagers. Regardless of what gender.

Howard the Duck

but you do realise that people laugh most at misfortunes?

how would you feel like if you were to expose all your dirty linen in public and getting laughed for it?

Dirty

Thank you Captain Obvious. Young girls are more influenced by the media. Looking at magazines and wishing they were as skinny or as hott as girls in the magazines they read or the movies they watch. Taking an hour to get ready for high school, caking on all the makeup, etc

MoonlitSunshine

beg away!

In all sincerity though, I think that women are at least more openly insecure. It's not in any way a "men are better" thing, it's just that society tends to be more forgiving of men in terms of image. There's more pressure on women to conform to the ideals of society, though I will make a point of noting that much of this vanity fare is directly the responsibility of women themselves (albeit those who already conformed to this "ideal"), rather than as a result of any real male pressure (which hardly needs proving, by virtue of the fact that the vast majority of guys would screw a good looking girl regardless of what she was wearing, and have 50% of them go a few months without sex, and they'd probably screw her no matter what she looked like either)

Male insecurity... I guess it is there, just on a different level. Male insecurity is more about being seen as the Alpha Male, the competition to be the best, to beat the other guys in a show if physical bravado. However, if anything that sort of pressure has lessened on men in recent years as we have entered into a Knowledge Economy era. The once persecuted "nerds" are finding more and more that they're the ones getting da money and da womenz, at the expense of the high school jocks who find to their disappointment that throwing a ball around a pitch and beating smaller guys up is only a career possibility for a select few. But, not none, which highlights the lessening of pressure.

For women, there is only really one "perceived" way of being attractive: Looking Good (DISCLAIMER: I think this is bull**** myself, so don't shoot the messenger). For guys, you can be super smart, super rich, super sporty or super attractive; there's much more versatility to play to your strengths in order to be attractive. More option to be yourself = less pressure to be something else = less insecurity.

This is changing, though, though that in itself is hardly anything new, Image and Attractiveness is constantly in flux. I think that these days, men are expected to cut a dashing figure a little more than they used to be. It's slowly turning into a requirement that men understand fashion and to be able to look good in a (well cut) suit. At the same time, with the rise in power of the nerds, girl nerds are becoming more "attractive"; No longer is the stupidly good-looking Bimbo always gonna win out in terms of sheer attraction. But does that mean that there's more pressure on women now, to be both Hot and Smart? I guess that's up for debate.

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Howard the Duck

^^what she said