Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27966940-20160712001717/@comment-14138255-20160717175030

Well if a person is sufficiently nervous and especially shy, standup can be an absolutely brutal endevour, especially if he freezes on stage. He could just be shy in his personal life and not on stage (ala Yahtzee Croshaw of Zero Punctuation).

The Joker in (one of) his backstories, was an unsuccessful comedian, one thing led to another, ended up in a vat of Crazyanium.