Hey folks, just a quick heads up. In this episode, there's an R-rated joke, Gasp.

So probably not great for kids. But if you're not a kid, stay tuned. It's a really good joke.

Every stand-up comedian has a story about bombing on stage. Here's Chris Grace.

I think still to this day, the worst I ever bombed was my first

paid gig. It was at a gay bar next to the Brooklyn Pride March. And it was a mixed bill

of stand-up comics, folk singer-songwriters, and spoken word poets.

Already a bad mix.

I don't think an audience is necessarily ready to shift tones that often in a show from one person to the next.

So Chris went on after the folk singer, and then he told a joke that had worked for him in the past, but this time when he told it, silence.

It was so bad. Somebody in the crowd actually asked him a clarifying question about the joke. It's like a

Q&A. Yeah, I had no response. Yeah, every joke I told had like a little talk back afterward.

So it was about, I would say about 10 minutes of just pure silence.

And here's the impact that it had on me.

I quit stand-up for about four years after that.

Oh, wow.

Like, I didn't, I just didn't do stand-up for a long time after that.

Okay. I just didn't do stand up for a long time after that. I'm Dan Heath, and this is what it's like to be.

In every episode, we walk in the shoes of someone from a different profession,

a hairstylist, a forensic accountant, a professional

Santa Claus. We want to know what they do all day at work. Today, we ask Chris Grace what it's

like to be a stand-up comedian. He's been doing stand-up for more than 10 years, and he played

Jerry in the NBC sitcom Superstore. We'll find out how he comes up with new

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