Musicians and comedians keep turning out to be the same kind of person. Real crossover, a real share…
Musicians and comedians keep turning out to be the same kind of person. Real crossover, a real shared mechanism, two mortality studies that measure two different things, and one honest gap nobody has actually tested: do comedy styles sort people the same way music genres do? Both run on timing. Both have real, measured styles that some people love and others can't stand. Both are, in some baseline sense, things almost anyone can do a little of — and both are also things where a small number of people are measurably, dramatically better than everyone else. Both professions carry real, documented, elevated risk of dying young. And there's a specific claim that sounds obviously true and turns out to be more complicated once you actually look: that comedy, like music, is something "everyone" is good at. https://begump.com/research/the-same-clock/
