A quick word of warning before we really get into it in this course. And that is it's going to make you uncomfortable. Getting onstage in front of people is going to make you uncomfortable. It's one of the top fears. It's one of the biggest fears. Jerry Seinfeld has a famous joke where he says, public speaking, is a greater fear than dying, which means that people who attend the funeral would rather be in the casket than giving the eulogy.
It's true, it can get very uncomfortable. I use the analogy of boxing in the previous video, and it's very similar getting into a ring and fighting a guy, even if it's just practicing and sparring is uncomfortable. Exercising is uncomfortable. These are things that make you healthier, doing comedy can be uncomfortable, and it's going to be and I just want to give you a fair word of warning that in this course, you will be asked to go outside of your comfort zone. Hopefully that's why you're here. Hopefully, that's why you're thinking about doing stand up comedy.
In a course like this. You're going to be asked to do things that are a little bit outside of your comfort zone. You're gonna be asked to maybe explore emotions that are all not immediately comfortable to you. Maybe some of them are a little odd. Maybe they're things you've never thought about before. Maybe it is strange or It feels like hard work to go through these things.
The answer is it is sometimes comedy comes to you naturally. Sometimes it comes in a brilliant flash, sometimes it's the heavens open up, and you're inspired, and your pen writes in a notebook or you open up a memo on your phone and start recording or you're on stage and things just come to you as you're talking. Sometimes it happens at your computer, but not always. Sometimes it requires a lot of focus. And Jerry Seinfeld is famous for saying, at least among comedians that most people will fail at stand up comedy because they don't go deep enough. So stand at the precipice of this course get ready to jump in and get ready to go deep, because we're gonna explore things in here that are going to help you be a better person by conflict.
Fronting uncomfortable truths potentially in your own life. And I would say to you act boldly, getting on stage and talking to people is a bold thing. It's not wrong when people say at dinner parties, oh, man, you've got a lot of bravery to get up on stage and do this. It's it's brave. But you know what, with practice, it becomes fun, it becomes just another thing that you do, and then you get good at it. And at the beginning, it's difficult.
And as any comedian will tell you, though, doing out any new material, going on stage and trying on anything new, it's like, trying to figure out how to do it again for the first time. So confronting fear is something comedians do a lot, and you're going to confront some of it in this course. It's just a word of warning, but I believe in you. Let's do this and I'll see you in the further videos.