I could see tears streaming down my face, this was far more than a stand-up, it was a shout.
Many people ask the weak/victims to tell their stories with a smile from the perspective of the strong/invisible raging ones. Don't be too brooding. Only laughter can heal your wounds. You have to be positive, and it's over. The person who made such a request is a second abuse of the victim, and the victim's attempt to gain the right to speak out in this way is also a second injury to himself, which is tantamount to being self-conscious. Because it is the audience who want to laugh and laugh. They need others to tell their stories vividly and interestingly. They don't need to know the ins and outs of things, because "this is too heavy." They want a joke teller, not a story teller. What they laugh is the funnyness that Joke Teller extracted from the dark story with a clever punch line. After the laugh, the body and mind are happy, but the darkness and pain of the story itself are eliminated. . Pain is pain. Pain will not be weakened by jokes. Pain is worthy of being told completely and truthfully. So what you tell alone is not a story, but a joke after the story has been edited and processed. The true story, the pain in the story, only the speaker knows and bears from beginning to end, around and around
This is why Hannah wants to quit the comedy circle, because she said "It's not humility, it's humiliation...I need to tell my story properly... I don't allow my story to be destroyed"
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