How to Adjust to a New Reality
Back when I was a comedian, there was a club in Green Bay, Wisconsin that I played several times. I always enjoyed it. The audiences there seemed to like me, for whatever reason.
Of course, you can’t perform in Green Bay without talking about football, and I’ve never been a fan of the sport, which they couldn’t understand and didn’t respect; but I was able to defuse that situation by explaining that I was from Seattle, and football had been nothing but a source of pain for my family.
The Green Bay audience liked that.
Note: I’m aware that eventually Seattle whipped itself into a formidable team. All I’m saying is that in the 1970s and 1980s, that very much had not happened yet.