Quotes About Audience

I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

I still think funny, and people young and old still come and see me. That's flattering. The day comes that they stop coming, then I'll know that it's time to retire to the Jewish ranch.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

Especially with comedy, you take massive risks because ultimately you're trying to be funny. If you're not funny, then it's really embarrassing and you look stupid.

My first open mic, I drank a full pitcher of beer by myself. I wasn't afraid of being in front of people as much as, Is this funny?

On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

Everything's funny - in the right context and done by the right person.

I hate trying to analyze comedy in some deep way. If it gets laughs, it's funny.

A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'

The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.

Thinking up jokes is easy. The hard part is trying them out on stage, because you never know if they're funny until you get there. Not one comedian in the world ever really knows.

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.

If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.

Comedy is not commercial; it is risky, because what is funny in one place isn't always funny somewhere else.

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.

I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

I don't set out to offend or shock, but I also don't do anything to avoid it.

I don't think half my stuff would be funny if the audience didn't feel at least a little bit safe that it's not how I truly feel.