Nothing feels worse than sucking on stage!In stand up, it is you and just you alone. You can't hide behind the lead guitarist if you blow a note, you can't rely on other actors to pick up your slack when you flub your line and you can't hope someone else on your team will recover the ball if you fumble.
So what do all those BS cliches boil down to? It means that if you suck on stage it is because you suck! Now you could suck as a comedian in general or just suck one set on an off night.
Stay with me here.........
Upon the moment you realize that the audience isn't laughing and its becuases of you, your mind goes through total panic and then throught a few coping stages.
Your brain after no laughter illistrated by emoticons
1. Why aren't they laughing?Â
2. Just get thought itÂ
3. Do I really suck?Â
4. I suck!Â
5. I don't suck, they suck.Â
6. F.U. audience!Â
Still with me?
If you look above, once the comic realizes he is sucking, he incresingly turns hostile blaming the audince because that is a coping mechanism for the comic's self esteem. No one want's to suck, so they lash out in self defense. In stage 6, which is a stage that comics try to stay out of, there are two choices.
1. Attack the audience
2. Get off the stage
Most comics will opt for #2 because they know that they are mad or upset and not thinking straight.
Of course Kramer chose option #1 and let loose.
Do I think it was right? Of course not!
But I do know when you are in stage 6, you are emotionally fried and ignore your common sence.
My final thoughts are, Kramer should have left the stage.
Noner
p.s. Welcome to my world.