For 25 years I have done corporate events. I began all those years ago as the 9 PM performer. That is a hard spot to be in only because, if you have no name in that space, then you are competing with casinos and other show offerings outside of the ballroom door in Vegas, or something better they may want to go do with peers for the rest of the evening. My job was to always keep them in their seats long enough to realize I was a better choice than what was tempting them to leave. So I had to grab them fast, and keep their interest for an hour. And through the years, I noticed that I would get raucous laughs from every group, except for the ones that hired me the most: Accountants, IT Guys, and Engineers. They would just sit there, blankly watching me, and I felt like they didn’t like my show. Yet at the end, they would give me a rousing standing ovation. Every single time. It was baffling and frustrating, until I took the time to shake their hands afterward and ask their thoughts of the show… and realized what they were experiencing