The bass player's function along with the drums is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly and once you figure it out you think 'Hey if I can do this and get paid that would be kind of cool.'
I'm horrible in the mornings. I'm grumpy.
Just get out. Just leave.
It was honestly, it was torture.