Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom

designed to help you in your everyday life.

On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual

lives.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy.

This is all there is.

It's one of the great moments in the history of comedy.

A comedy central presents the roast of Bob Sagitt, the comedian, Norm MacDonald, is up roast

in his friend, Bob Sagitt, and the rest of the panel.

Yet instead of doing what nearly every comedian has done in the history of roasts, Norm goes

on stage and basically bombs on purpose, telling a series of enane and mediocre jokes that

he may or may not have stolen from an old joke book.

It's worth watching, if only for the courage and the self-discipline that this artistic

statement must have taken.

The audience is confused.

They're laughter, trailing off to almost nothing as the set seems to go worse and worse.

His friends on the day, us all professional comedians, are nervous with discomfort, empathizing

with what seems like the thing that all performers dread, just not having it that night.

All the momentum of the roast seems to disappear.

Indeed, it's almost like time begins to move excruciatingly slow as Norm performs flawless,

but terrible comedy over the next eight plus minutes.

Yet throughout it all, he never breaks character, he ignores the audience, he just goes on making

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