Stand-up comedy can be a surprisingly lonely profession at times.
Alone on an unforgiving stage, being paid to provide happiness and escapism to an audience looking to forget about their everyday lives while expecting you to make witty observations about it can certainly be a tough gig.
"When it goes well, it is like heaven on earth, very exciting and thrilling," says John Moorhead, the founder of The Punchline Comedy Club, a comedy collective that brings comedians from the West to Asia.