SONG 6: COMEDY'S A COMPETITION (REPRISE)

SHAWN

Comedy's a competition

I guess I compete against myself

But now I'm here at this audition

Wishin' I could be somebody else

I'm just trying to be

A better version of me

I have low self-esteem

But I'm in therapy

SHAWN (CONT'D)

Oh, it's comedy

Self-deprecating comedy

Self-doubtulating comedy

This is humiliating comedy

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Comedy

SHAWN (CONT'D)

I'm not conventionally funny

That's what they tell me all the time

They also say I'm not conventionally attractive

Which seems irrelevant but I guess it's fine

I don't want to be conventional

I want to be multi-dimensional

I wanna get weirdly emotional

And maybe start to cry

Is this still...

SHAWN (CONT'D)

Comedy?

Yeah, it's just reprehensible comedy

It's just inaccessible comedy

Deeply personal comedy, you see

ENSEMBLE

Comedy

SHAWN (CONT'D)

I don't want to compete

I just want to connect

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I don't want to compete

I just want to connect

SHAWN

I don't want to compete

I just want to connect

ENSEMBLE

I don't want to compete

I just want to connect

SHAWN

I don't want to compete

I just want to connect

ENSEMBLE

I don't want to compete

I just want to connect

SHAWN

I don't want to compete

I just want to connect

PHYLLIS

I don't want to compete

I just want to connect

SHAWN

I just want to connect

Phyllis stands up, moved by the performance. Shawn starts to go sing again, but realizes Phyllis is singing and stops.

PHYLLIS

Comedy's a competition

For me, it's been reduced to nothing more

I used to laugh with reckless abandon

Now I'm taking notes and keeping score

How I yearn to return

To the way I was before

When I'd L.O.L. and R.O.T.F.L.

That stands for rolling on the floor

Laughing at...

PHYLLIS (CONT'D)

Comedy

Oh, any sort of comedy

I was in love with comedy

Bring me back to comedy

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Comedy

PHYLLIS (CONT'D)

Comedy

Any sort of comedy

I was in love with comedy

Bring me back to comedy

SHAWN

Oh it's comedy

I want to touch the deeply absurd

Doing comedy

Like no one's ever heard

Oh it's comedy

To be alive with love and mirth

I need comedy

SHAWN (CONT'D)

Your laughter's my self-worth

Oh, comedy

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