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[rayheinrich]

"The embarrassment you all feel is entirely justified, as it is in keeping with the way the rest of the evening has gone. Basically no one thinks it's a good idea when a middle aged man reaches for a guitar...and that is interesting, because there have been a lot of spurious articles in the press recently about what is the last taboo in stand-up. Is it jokes about race? Is it jokes about rape? It isn't. In my experience, after doing this for the last five months, the last taboo in stand-up is a man trying to do something sincerely and well.
People hate it. 'Oh no, he's not going to sing, is he? Do some rape stuff! Send us home laughing!'."
–Stewart Lee

" the last taboo in stand-up is a man trying to do something sincerely and well. .

And therein lies the problem. 'Sincere' is easy, 'well' is hard.