Yup.  Just have fun.  That to me is the best advice any comic with more experience has ever told me.  It really is. And many of them have. Because when you do enough sets (at enough different places) you realize it, after a while.. Or, you SHOULD realize it.

That's why every single literary work about "Comedy" feels so forced, so pretentious. It always sounds obvious. After you study all the bullshit, and practice all there is to be practiced, it really is just about having fun. And some people don't know how to do that. If the performer thinks about the craft too much, he/she ends up disappointed in their own work.

I feel guilty of that all the time. I analyze way too much. I had a regular set tonight and I did alright, I guess. But not as good as I know I'm capable of.

And when you're the only one who thinks they've had a bad set, you're right.

It's like that old Henry Ford quote, "whelther you think you can, or you can't, you're right."

Smart man, that Henry Ford.