I Have Fat Friends???

I used to do stand up comedy.  To be honest with you I took a lot of heat from many people for doing "fat" jokes.  One of the first pieces of comedy advice I ever received was to at least start with a fat joke.  His reasoning was if I did not the crowd would spend the entire time wondering if I knew how fat I was.  That to me was funnier than the jokes.  Anyway that always stuck in my head so I always started with one.

Many comedians would pull me aside and say you do to many fat jokes.  Tell jokes about your life things that make you unique.  I thought that is what I was doing.  I am a fat guy after all.  I guess the truth is comedy is tough and fat jokes are easy.  In a way I guess they are correct.  When I lose the weight and beat the back problem I would think their is a reasonable chance I try to do a little comedy again.  It would be nice to try it as a normal weighted dude.

The most ironic thing is the people in the audience who would get really pissed.  Quite often a fat person would come up to me after a set and go completely ape shit nuts on me.  "I come to a comedy club to laugh and I have to listen to that crap.  Have some respect for yourself......blah blah blah."  The cool thing was another fat person was usually right behind them telling me not to worry about it and it was funny.  The truth is I wasn't worried and I wasn't making fun of them.  I wouldn't do that.  I guess I Kind of looked at it like some African Americans view the N word.