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Comedians Wax Poetic on the Virtue of Choking in ‘Dying Laughing’ Trailer
Comedians Wax Poetic on the Virtue of Choking in ‘Dying Laughing’ Trailer
Comedians Wax Poetic on the Virtue of Choking in ‘Dying Laughing’ Trailer
It’s the bugaboo that every comic who’s ever gripped a mic and squinted into the spotlight knows all too well: silence. You keep telling the jokes, and your best material isn’t getting a peep. The flop sweat starts to gather at the small of your back, and all of a sudden, you regret not taking the bottle of water they offered you backstage. The colloquial turn is ‘choking’ or ‘bombing,’ and it happens to the best of the best. They admit as much themselves in the new trailer for the upcoming stand-up documentary Dying Laughing; all the Emmys in the world can’t protect the biggest talents in the world from an occasional nuclear-class bombing, and the upcoming doc captures all the agony and ecstasy of life in comedy.

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