I heard the other day of a man who paid a psychologist $50 to cure him of an inferiority complex - and later was fined $25 and costs for talking back to a traffic cop.
We teach reading, writing and math by [having students do] them. But we teach democracy by lecture.
Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.
I was an actor before becoming a comedian.
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us.