3 comedians who have inspired me to not be a comedian.

All comedians are funny, but some are way funnier than others. My philosophy on the amount of funny that comes out of a comedian is based on his or her childhood or young life. The harder it was, the funnier they are now. If their life was pretty much made (non-Jewish), they're not as funny. There isn't much to support this argument, but its about 95% accurate.

Now there are three people who were either Jewish or had a hard life, or both. These people are George Carlin, Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce. I am neither Jewish, not grew up in a bad part of Chicago or NYC (yes there's a bad part, there's always a bad part) or any city, roughing it everyday on the streets.

Lenny Bruce being searched by the 5-0

Lenny Bruce was funny. He was someone that no one would feel comfortable listening to his albums with (like parents). But his life just really sucked growing up as a comedian. With drugs and stuff like that, it's not something that anyone would want to go through to be talking in front of a crowd at Carnegie Hall. Unless their into that sort of stuff, but it's not favorable. Lenny Bruce was also Jewish, which somehow is a boost to being funny for anyone, I'm not sure how.

George Carlin's life sucked very much as well. Even in his book, Last Words, he describes how bad his life got with drugs and how he, his wife and child went rock-bottom as he was starting out as a comic. Although he was not Jewish, he was one of the funniest Irish-Catholics OF ALL TIME.

Bill Hicks was just the guy that was really crazy and would win in a debate tournament with a Nobel Prize, but he'd probably get disqualified for racism, profanity and having offended every living person. Also having a mullet isn't the most popular hairstyle today. He's also not the most liked person at all. Even people who like him, don't like him.

So there's three comedians that have inspired me to never pursue the career of comedy. It's not worth it.