i work as a stand up comedian.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Stand-up comedy is a comic style in which a comedian performs in front of a live audience, usually speaking directly to them. The performer is commonly known as a comic, stand-up comic, stand-up comedian or simply a stand-up. In stand-up comedy, the comedian usually recites a grouping of humorous stories, jokes and one-liners typically called a monologue, routine or act. Some stand-up comedians use props, music or magic tricks to \"enhance\" their acts. Stand-up comedy is often performed in comedy clubs, bars and pubs, nightclubs, neo-burlesques, colleges and theatres. Outside live performance, stand-up is often distributed commercially via television, DVD, CD and the internet. In stand-up comedy, the feedback of the audience is instant and crucial for the comedian's act. Audiences expect a stand-up comic to provide a steady stream of laughs, and a performer is always under pressure to deliver. Will Ferrell has called stand-up comedy \"hard, lonely and vicious\". A stand-up comedy show may involve only one comedian, or feature a \"headline\" or a \"showcase\" format. A headline format typically features an opening act known as a host, \"comp\u00e8re\" (UK), or master of ceremonies (MC), who usually warms up the crowd, interacts with the audience members, makes announcements, and introduces the other performers.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I'm thinking about starting a career in stand-up comedy. Seems easy enough"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It sounds fun, if you like performing and entertaining others."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I don't like entertaining so much. It seems like a good way to get free therapy. Ya know, spilling your guts to a stranger. Or strangers in this case."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Oh cool, yeah I get it. Entertaimnet is basically giving pleasure to others and holding their attention, while what you're saying it's more like a self-therapy kind of thing."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Sure. I'm OK with my therapy being others' entertainment. I can work through emotions, and talk about stuff that bothers me. And it's a socially acceptable way to complain and insult others. The perfect therapy."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah it's kind of unethical to me, but to many it's acceptable. Speaking of ethics, maybe you've heard of NIcomachean Ethics? It's the name of best-known work of Aristotle on ethics."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think I read it in my Intro to Philosophy course in college. I can't remember a damn thing about it, though."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's basically an answer to question on how men should live best, of course Plato and Socrates also worked on that topic. Who doesn't anyway, I think we all look for this answer."}, {"role": "user", "content": "\"The unexamined life is not worth living,\" said Plato or Socrates. I can't remember. Cool dudes, they must've been, ya know?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I think it was Socrates. He was the founder of the Western Philosophy, also ethical tradition of thought, I mean sure he was cool."}]