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The trouble is that his jokes really aren't very funny. He has a girlfriend who is about ready to dump him because he's too self absorbed, in addition to being a lousy lover. After dropping out of law school, he tries one last gig:
| . . . I talked about how I was a law school dropout, pretty much an unmitigated failure at life. The laughs dwindled as I went on beating myself up, turning comedy into something else. At one point I ad-libbed, "I've got shit for brains, have you noticed that?" and the audience just dead-eyed me. Then a waitress dumped half a hutch of glassware on the floor. I said, "Ah, what a relief." But nobody got it. Heads turned to view the mess. A heckler yelled, "Hey, at least you're not the only one getting fired tonight." |