He's not breaking kayfabe and he imagines this stance looks better
Doesn't realize that with everyone KNOWING you're fronting .. it doesn't look better to keep fronting.
That is, in fact, why people are turned off. Be like Robert Downey Jr or Martin or Pryor.
Do your nutso act, then repent and talk about it honestly. By now he should have a 10 min standup routine about what it took to put it together and things that went wrong.. (besides the obvious getting imprisoned).
He's caught in his imaginary view of himself and he can't see that he simply looks like someone pretending hard as they can. And that is weak and offputting