A stage presence that really stood out to me while I was going down this rabbit hole was Ellen at the Oscars. All politics and stupid self-serving actors aside, she is brilliant at entertaining people and completely internalized this principle.

She literally spent an entire segment ordering pizza on stage, and then another one getting it from the delivery person and handing it out to people in the audience and just picking on them about it. Then another one just getting a bunch of actors together to take a selfie.

It was genuinely entertaining, and there was absolutely nothing to it. There's something novel in taking a very controlled relationship like you being on stage in front of tons of people all watching you, and then treating it as if its just sort of happenstance that you're up there. Ordering a pizza isn't funny, but being on stage and giving a speech, and then stopping to order a pizza, is peak entertainment. 🤣

There are a lot of other examples, but it just demonstrates that the environment can be heavily to your advantage, if you are willing to drop expectations, not hold yourself to some impossible standard or try to be someone else, and just have fun... most people will love it.