You do get a bit paranoid that you're becoming a sort of narcissist, an artistic solipsist when you're doing stand-up.

At its essence, 'Groundhog Day' is an existential journey of an unhappy, judgmental, slightly narcissistic, misogynistic, dissatisfied, aspirational, entitled, privileged male who has to learn to be the opposite of all those things to find happiness - to learn that learning is important and that you don't get to control everything.

It's about the audience - if they laugh and clap, you feed off that, and if they don't, you doubt everything you've ever done.

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