If you set up an environment where failing is encouraged then you want to try everything. It's obviously the best way to work.
All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
You still have that competitive thing where you want to try to make hits. That won't go away, unless the mayor of show business says my time's up.