Why do people want to be comedians when it seems they can't come up with original material?

I can't take it anymore. I was dying to leave early from a show at Wise Guys comedy club last night because I'm so sick of these lame ass sets.

I live in Las Vegas and have memberships to all the seat filler companies in town plus I also purchase tickets as well. I'm on multiple comics mailing lists.

I've seen everyone from Jerry Seinfeld to Kevin Hart, Tom Segura to Adam Carolla, Jeff Dunham to Pauly Shore, Iliza Shlesinger to Leanne Morgan, Heather McMahan to Atsuko Okatsuka, to an innumerable amount of comics at every level of fame and at every venue large and small in this city.

I am going to tear my hair out if I have to sit through another set of "Can you believe my wife has sex with a fat slob like me" / "I like blow jobs" / "I wish someone would have sex with me" / "Anyone else like to smoke weed?"

It's like sitting through someone reading through r/ihavesex. It's boring AF, tired and lazy. Where is the joke? What is the punchline?

Why do people want to become comics if they can't come up with anything witty, or clever, or original? It's not like most comics are making any real money doing standup, especially at these small venues.

As a customer and as a seat filler, why put yourself through standing up in front of strangers and trying to make them laugh for like $25 from the venue if you don't care enough about the craft to say something other than cum, jizz, dick, tits, pussy & drug use as your supposed punchline?

Even with female comedians, can we hear a set that isn't about dicks and vibrators?

Maybe I'm just a killjoy but I'm done giving pity laughs and claps. I've literally been harassed by comics while in the front row for not laughing at their crap set (including by an older comic here in Vegas who exclusively does blow jobs jokes and says "God Bless" as his filler phrase. Unfortunately I was at two shows where he was an opener.)

I've seen comics who are funny. I've laughed so hard I've cried at shows - including on a cruise ship, which are notorious for hiring terrible comics. I'm not looking for clean comedy but I am looking for something that is actual comedy.

Unfortunately for every 15-20 bad comics I see, I've seen 1 comic that was able to have the whole room howling with laughter. The people who are making the whole room erupt are almost exclusively making some observational humor joke about the absurdity of some people or shared experiences people have that has nothing to do with sex or getting blazed.

👉 So my question is this - why do people want to be comics if they don't want to actually come up with funny material, especially when most comics will never make enough money to support themselves?