I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw ’How to be a Stand-up Comedian ’ it resonated. I realized I’d rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

Liebman frames her move into stand-up as an accidental discovery that nonetheless clarified her artistic priorities. The contrast between “make 200 people laugh” and “make one person cry” sets comedy against conventional dramatic acting: comedy is presented as communal, immediate, and measurable in real time, while drama is intimate and singular. The line also suggests a temperament—she is drawn to the shared energy of a room and the craft of generating collective joy rather than pursuing emotional catharsis through sorrow. Implicitly, it’s a statement about vocation: the right medium “resonates” because it aligns with what the performer most wants to give an audience.