Every year April Fool's Day reveals that roughly 70% of the people in tech are walking around carrying the unshakeable belief that they could do a tight 5 at the Comedy Store. They cannot. They can barely do a tight 5 in a product review.
@Daojoan For a few years while I ran TUAW I tried my hand at stand up comedy. I wasn't bad, and there was no living to be made, but boy howdy did my Cringe Detector get put on full alert.