A comedian silences an audience for 9 minutes. It's not an awkward silence. - General

Damn, this makes my heart sink so much :( [editline]23rd September 2012[/editline] Respect to him for sharing such a heartfelt personally story

[QUOTE=Hullu V3;37764568]I wonder if there are professional depressants who make people feel like shit. This guy would be good at that.[/QUOTE] There are stand-up tragedians.

When he got to the part about planning. God...

I couldn't imagine getting up on a stage knowing that you were going to go out and say something so personal. And yeah thats horrible. My family lost my 15 year old cousin last mothers day to cancer, and it hit us all hard, especially my aunt (the girls mother), hasn't been the same. On top of that, that same aunt lost her Mom (my grandma) a few months later to cancer. It's been a hard year for our family and so I really feel for this guy.

The worst times of my life seem like mild slaps on the wrist compared to what this guy is going through, his suffering is deep up to the point of being unfathomable. No one should deserve this, no one should be subject to such diabolic punishment, no soul should be this tortured. I fully believe in the concept of life lessons, but this is just horrifying.

Goddamn, the part where he was talking about all the things he was wanting to plan to do for his daughter hit the hardest. Especially since I can't wait to be a father; I couldn't imagine going through that. :(

People were cutting onions in the kitchen behind me while I watched this. Couldn't tell if onions or sadness were behind my watery eyes :(

Whoa...

That was pretty sad. Honestly though... if I was father I would rather have this happen when my daughter was young (like what happened to his daughter at 2yrs of age) then to have to endure the same thing when my daughter had her life already established and on a track, something like 8-14 years old. A 2 year old is sad to have cancer, but at least I'd be able to rest easy on her innocence protecting her from deep emotional pain. At that age, she wouldn't have developed any dreams of her own, there wouldn't be a deep history between you and her (except for that first two years), there wouldn't be knowing that other kids are totally fine and you aren't, her memory wouldn't be fully developed nor her brain (you can't remember thing from when you are 2-3 because the part of your brain that works with long term memory doesn't fully develop yet), etc. It's sad to see all the potential waste away, especailly if she was fine for the first year or so of her life. But I'd be much more devistating knowing that not only was the potential between you an her severed, but her personal dreams were severed, the relationship/history you developed within the past 8-12 years suddenly stops, etc that would happen if she was a lot older and still young enough to be considered a kid/teen. It kinda sounds like I am trivilizaing a little girl getting cancer, which I don't mean to do. I guess what I'm saying that if I was in a similar position, I don't think I'd take it as hard as he did, though still pretty hard... its just something that doesn't happen to young kids.

That was depressing

I didn't feel sad at all I think there is something wrong with me

Tears all over the face

I found it sad, but i was nowhere near to tears. I guess i need to have a child or younger sibling to understand this.

I'm about to go to sleep not sure I want to sob

[QUOTE=KorJax;37767137]That was pretty sad. Honestly though... if I was father I would rather have this happen when my daughter was young (like what happened to his daughter at 2yrs of age) then to have to endure the same thing when my daughter had her life already established and on a track, something like 8-14 years old. A 2 year old is sad to have cancer, but at least I'd be able to rest easy on her innocence protecting her from deep emotional pain. At that age, she wouldn't have developed any dreams of her own, there wouldn't be a deep history between you and her (except for that first two years), there wouldn't be knowing that other kids are totally fine and you aren't, her memory wouldn't be fully developed nor her brain (you can't remember thing from when you are 2-3 because the part of your brain that works with long term memory doesn't fully develop yet), etc. It's sad to see all the potential waste away, especailly if she was fine for the first year or so of her life. But I'd be much more devistating knowing that not only was the potential between you an her severed, but her personal dreams were severed, the relationship/history you developed within the past 8-12 years suddenly stops, etc that would happen if she was a lot older and still young enough to be considered a kid/teen. It kinda sounds like I am trivilizaing a little girl getting cancer, which I don't mean to do. I guess what I'm saying that if I was in a similar position, I don't think I'd take it as hard as he did, though still pretty hard... its just something that doesn't happen to young kids.[/QUOTE] You are only saying this because you probably have no idea what it's like to have a child.

wow holy shit I may never be happy again [editline]23rd September 2012[/editline] jesus christ I was doing fine when he started talking about what he planned I turned into a fucking waterfall

[QUOTE=Mr.Cookie;37768034]You are only saying this because you probably have no idea what it's like to have a child.[/QUOTE] I know, and I said that. I probably can't understand. I still realize it's very sad. But I was just saying I'd rather be in a position where this bad situation happens at the age of two versus the age of 8-10

[QUOTE=KorJax;37768818]I know, and I said that. I probably can't understand. I still realize it's very sad. But I was just saying I'd rather be in a position where this bad situation happens at the age of two versus the age of 8-10[/QUOTE] No. You wouldn't. If you were a decent human being you wouldn't dare make that kind of comparison, you'd rather be in neither position. If you were a proper man you'd have sad "I'd rather give my own life then watch my child die because of something I can't control".

[QUOTE=No Party Hats;37769003]No. You wouldn't. If you were a decent human being you wouldn't dare make that kind of comparison, you'd rather be in neither position. If you were a proper man you'd have sad "I'd rather give my own life then watch my child die because of something I can't control".[/QUOTE] [misinterpreted your post here but it fits with the idea] you'd rather die first than watch your child fight for his life right, so you won't have to witness or deal with all the emotional collapse and pain. I mean, is that any more ignorant than the idea that your knowingly going to give life to someone who is inevitably going to die hard, but because you don't wish it upon it them it makes it ok or your not going to be the direct cause of their death no, it might be someone elses damn ancestral kid that does it or cancer whatever. So despite knowing how exposed to such an extent of how miserable life can seriously get you go ahead and do it anyway. The whole idea is about what you want, your desires and not on the basis of your kids so when you have children, you ain't doing it for somebody that doesn't exist yet - because things that don't exist have no needs. You are doing it for your own accomplishments and creating existinial problems for someone else that doesn't need to exist, without thinking about whether they would possibly want to go through it in the future. Man up and don't have kids.

Such raw emotion. My brother had the same look in his eyes when his daughter died, she wasn't even a year old. Why do such terrible things happen to good people?

I was holding it together pretty well until he started listing the things he hadn't planned to do with his daughter yet, and I turned into a blubbering mess.

I don't usually cry a lot but, jesus I was tearing, that was powerful

[QUOTE=lifehole;37762909]what a great comedian[/QUOTE] As much as the name says otherwise, comedy clubs aren't 24/7 comedy. They can revolve around the life of a comedian, whether it be sad or funny.

[QUOTE=TehDoctorz;37762441]That one clap...fuck...wouldnt wanna be that guy.[/QUOTE] He was probably murdered in the back alley by the rest of the audience.

Strong words that were well put, I teared up at the planning part due to his daughter dieing at the age she did, not being able to experience moments in life such as a first kiss, or her first days at school.

Seriously powerful stuff. I cannot hope to comprehend what its like to lose a child to something like cancer.

Very heart breaking and powerful. This guy has guts to spread his true feelings over the audience like that.

That was very touching, it really makes you think.

Deep

[QUOTE=KorJax;37767137]That was pretty sad. Honestly though... if I was father I would rather have this happen when my daughter was young (like what happened to his daughter at 2yrs of age) then to have to endure the same thing when my daughter had her life already established and on a track, something like 8-14 years old. A 2 year old is sad to have cancer, but at least I'd be able to rest easy on her innocence protecting her from deep emotional pain. At that age, she wouldn't have developed any dreams of her own, there wouldn't be a deep history between you and her (except for that first two years), there wouldn't be knowing that other kids are totally fine and you aren't, her memory wouldn't be fully developed nor her brain (you can't remember thing from when you are 2-3 because the part of your brain that works with long term memory doesn't fully develop yet), etc. It's sad to see all the potential waste away, especailly if she was fine for the first year or so of her life. But I'd be much more devistating knowing that not only was the potential between you an her severed, but her personal dreams were severed, the relationship/history you developed within the past 8-12 years suddenly stops, etc that would happen if she was a lot older and still young enough to be considered a kid/teen. It kinda sounds like I am trivilizaing a little girl getting cancer, which I don't mean to do. I guess what I'm saying that if I was in a similar position, I don't think I'd take it as hard as he did, though still pretty hard... its just something that doesn't happen to young kids.[/QUOTE] what the fuck are you talking about i'm so glad that you wouldn't sob over the thought of one of the people you love the most in the world dying by horrible cancer someone you expected to spend the rest of your life seeing and loving fuck off