They've been right in the past, and like therapists -- we need to know they aren't in it for selfish reasons. It's their good boundaries that show us they aren't.

Comedians, like all true artists, do the craft out of love and because they care. Both like good parents and good therapists, they demand and deserve respect in kind.

We can relax, grow, and function better relieved of our seriousness and anxiety, and in the future, be struck by insights we hadn't thought of without the intervention of the comedian.

Good comedy. Good therapy.

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