YOUR REGION — After toying with the idea for quite some time, a local amateur comic has finally decided to join the popular social network, Twitter, where he believes that his material will finally be able to be ignored by a significant number of people.
Leon Jones, who has been doing comedy every other Thursday in front of very limited crowds for the past seven months, believes that he is finally ready to have his material be unappreciated outside of just the confines of his local bar.
“I love doing stand-up, I mean there’s nothing better than that immediate and personal disappointment you get from a live crowd’s lack of response,” Jones explained, “But with Twitter, now I can get that lack of gratification all the time.”
Jones said that for the past year he’s had to live with having ideas that he thinks are really funny but has never had the outlet to feel them instantly rejected by a large group of people.
“I was so sick of doing all this material on stage that I thought was original and had nothing to prove me otherwise,” Jones told The Peak.
“With Twitter now I can easily see that a thousand other people did exactly the same joke as me and don’t have to wait until my Thursday night set to fall into a depression about what an unoriginal, insignificant being I am . . . it’s great.”
