Quotes About Audience

It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

When I'm up on stage and do a joke, half the people interpret it one way and half of them interpret it the way I want them to.

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times, and then one night it'll flop.

I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.

I always say, if I tell you a joke right now and it's funny, you laugh. Now, we set the lights, and I tell you the joke again, it's hard to find it funny the second time.

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

Every comedian feels out an audience. As you're telling jokes, if they're not laughing at this, you change the subject.

Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do.

I don't care if my jokes are appropriate for a kid.

People appreciate it when you take some time to think about who will be listening to your jokes.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

My favorite moments are the moments everyone cries over. I see people in the audience crying, and I go, 'I did that, too. I don't just do the jokes. I also do the cries.' Jokes and cries, jokes and cries. That's all I'm here for, people.

What I'm doing in the work I do, I prefer not to just have a series of jokes. It's nice when audiences can connect with the characters as well.

It's hard for a comic to be joking when your lines can't be funny.

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.

God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh.

The dumber half of the audience - whether they're male or female, and a lot of them are male - for some reason responds very quickly to the feminine voice. How can I put it? They kind of instantly react to the female voice in a positive way quicker than they would the male voice.

Proper DJs don't just trot out a load of nice tunes, they think carefully about the time, the place, and the people in front of them, and choose something that's perfect.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

Since the average person fears public speaking more than death, subjects in a study were asked to address an audience.

Afterward all participants were invited to spit into a cup, which allowed scientists to extract a hormone associated with anxiety. They found that with confident speakers, the audience followed every word, feeling relaxed, but with nervous ones, the speaker's discomfort rubbed off on the audience. The hormone levels of speakers and audiences converged the way they did between vole mates.35

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

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