The less likely a person is to be embarrassing, the more embarrassing stories they have. It's kind of an inverse law.

[ Krouse leans in, like he's confiding a secret. ]

If someone is consistently embarrassing, those are anecdotes. Part of a general life pattern, right? That's not really a story, per se. When someone who's usually on the ball blows it, though? That's a story. You have to find out why someone who isn't embarrassing got themselves into that predicament. There's a narrative arc, motive, cast of characters, the whole thing.

So yeah. In your case? There has to be a decent catalogue.