its interesting how the people who say "my trauma made me funny" are never actually funny just uncomfortably self-deprecating
#self-deprecating humor is NOT the same as being funny bc that puts it on the other person to COMFORT you#the TRUE version of 'my trauma made me funny' is being able to take the kernel of ANY uncomfortable thing#and diffuse it by EXAMINING/EXPANDING on it such that EVERYONE laughs#WHICH IS WHAT STAND UP COMEDY IS#and everyone thinks they can do stand up but it's a craft and learned/honed skill that very few do WELL!#that's not to say there aren't stand ups whose style isn't self-deprecation but they fully craft those jokes word-by-word to be funny#like it's not reflexive self-deprecation it's on purpose as part of the thing they've deliberately written and workshopped#(also is why all stand up comedians are people with trauma it's why they're all Like That)
