I’m relatively new to stand-up comedy, but I’ve bombed often enough that it all rang painfully true, especially the part about how you start saying things out of sequence once you start bombing. I’m not sure what that is, exactly — fight or flight response, maybe, where your brain turns on the automatic pilot and the subconscious starts doing whatever it wants? It’s an eerie experience, though, because it’s like your conscious self is sitting in the co-pilot’s chair watching the plane go down in a flaming wreck and still can’t do anything about it.

Thanks again for the link!