It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.
I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.
Too many countries that do not play by the free trade rules of the World Trade Organization - including, notably mercantilist China and monopolist Saudi Arabia - have been allowed in, to the detriment of both the WTO and the liberal trading environment it is supposed to sponsor.