I did the therapy circut first before I knew about stand up - I would go from therapist to therapist and I’d kill every time and then I would pay them! It wasnt until one night at a party in NYC that I smoked some really good weed (back in the day when I did that and it was good) and as I was standing there in a crowded noisy packed room talking to my friend when I saw on the back of my eyelids myself doing stand-up every time I blinked. The next day I booked a gig at a club called Stand-Up Ny on the Upper West Side in Manhattan - I had 3 weeks to prepare never having done it before I got a tape recorder  talked into it everyday about the worst fears and most painful experiences of my life then I edited that down and boom, there it was my first stand up set. I killed that night.