Check your ego at the door. Absorb as much as you can. And then see where it takes you. Why We Need Comedy Imagine life without it. They say everybody in comedy had a bad childhood.
Comedy comes from pain or sadness.
It exists because everything has an equal and opposite reaction. The good thing about my job is I have a good laugh everyday. Which is hard to say. Most people say they haven't laughed in years. At ImprovOlympic, they do a lot of long-form.