Stand-up is about creating a persona and having these sorts of questions in the background. It is a chance to create who you want to be or wish you were, or just to exaggerate what you think you might be. And yet, isn’t real life like that, too? Don’t we all adapt our behaviour to fit the circumstances? Is that what we are doing when we use expressions such as ‘I have my “being a dad” hat on today’? Whose character is so consistent that they are the same with their drinking friends as they are with their grandmother? Language, accent and demeanour are all open to constant change.
