By Nick A. Zaino III Globe correspondent,Updated June 15, 2022, 3:24 p.m.

One of the first things comedians set out to do is to define themselves for an audience. Are they a quickfire club comic with punch lines every few seconds? An absurdist like Andy Kaufman? A heartfelt storyteller? An angry, edgy comic? Chris Gethard, who records an episode of his “Beautiful/Anonymous” podcast and then performs a separate stand-up show at the Sinclair Saturday, decided not to choose. He can be any of those things, depending on the project.

“Believe me, I’m more frustrated than anybody that I don’t have an easy-to-describe career,” he says, speaking by phone. “I remember once telling an agent I do a lot of stand-up, but I also have a lot of respect in the improv world, and I’ve written books, and I hosted a public access show that was really strange.”

The agent’s response? He didn’t know how to make money with all of that.

Gethard might have more fame if he stuck to one kind of comedy, but that’s not how his impulses work. “I do a lot of different creative stuff,” he says. “I try to make sure it all feels honest, that it all feels worthwhile.”

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Chris Gethard is an all-of-the-above kind of comic