I have spent a lot of time around improvisors, stand-up comedians, alternative comedians, comedy writers, punch up writers, even a couple dare I say comedic legends. I cannot think of a single case where comedy did not cover a wound. Can you? A lot of being comedy/wittiness is the meeting of:
verbal skills of deflection + outsider perspective + needing validation
So: Shame + alienation + repression, coming out in the most opposite way it can. It's beautiful, its genuinely beautiful, it's also sad and makes me wish I'd spent less time cracking jokes and more time asking serious questions and listening to my fellow comedians because we were all trying so hard not to tell each other something.
Front facing camera comedy holds hands with crying confessional break downs, because they are two sides of the same coin. It's all too much. It's an avalanche of pain coming out of our phones at all time combined with the cure, which is seriph fonts and neutral pastels this season.
Be gentle out there-- I'm not tell you I'm telling myself. Be gentle in here, be gentle out there, listen listen listen.