hilarious friends

hilarious friends aren't comedians
and typically, they can
not be. They're funny
because that's so them, or
that's so not like them - oho
they were kidding! I knew it - or
because they're true. Like "it's funny
because it's true." Hilarious friends
excel in these ways hilariously! And also
because they're always cracking each other up
and it builds infectiously to a pitch
where you're practically dying. And such
interactions become the stuff of callbacks
and in-jokes, an arsenal built of moments
you had to be there.

None of this shit translates onstage, okay?
You don't know this person. You don't know
what's so them, or so unlike them, or
they're joking, or they're true. Maybe
by the time they're famous or a cult fave
of yours, you do! But unless you were friends
with them before they got big, you're not going
to want them to. Get big.

You'll find no reason to.

Hilarious friends aren't comedians.
They're considerably better and funnier,
in fact, but it's all in ways that don't

translate to an act.