This painting revisits the image of the Joker, lying in bed, drawn from the film starring Joaquin Phoenix. The work reflects on empathy for the failed comedian and the uneasy overlap between comedy, tragedy, and art. The title borrows from the British drama Baby Reindeer, where the line “A comedy that nobody laughs at is performance art” captures the ambiguity between performance and breakdown, success and failure. Here, the bed becomes a stage of inoperativity, a state between potential and action. The figure’s stillness recalls Giorgio Agamben’s idea that true potential lies not in what is done, but in the capacity to withhold doing. It is a portrait of exhaustion and resistance, of those who remain suspended between wanting to act and choosing not to. The painting turns idleness into a quiet philosophy of habit, madness, and survival.