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How I quit stand-up comedy

How I quit stand-up comedy

Note 'how' not 'why'

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James Harris
Feb 10, 2022
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Performing comedy in Berlin, 2010. Photo by Thomas Farr

A few years ago I realized I wasn’t going to make it in comedy. It came on a specific night; in 2016, I performed in the heats of the New Comedian of the Year competition at the Leicester Square Theatre. At that point, I had been doing comedy for about fifteen years, and as befits this, I was almost…

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