Quotes & Jokes about Audience / page 7
I've spent days in cinemas answering questions from the audience, in interviews, travelling abroad, and all they do is thank me nicely.
I love talking to the audience, and I must be the luckiest performer in the world. I always land something or somebody that just takes off.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
How does the audience fall under the illusion that they have some right to not be offended? Certainly you have the right to not be harmed; but offended? Imagine the number of subjects that might offend any single individual and multiply that by the number of people in any given audience. Subtract all those topics from any given comic's set list and what do you get? Mime. That's what you get and possibly what you deserve. I've been booed for wearing the jersey of an offending sports team and then won the audience back with rape jokes. Who can tell?
When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.
25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.
The shortest feedback loop I can think of is doing improvisation in front of an audience.
The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.
Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.
Hopefully the process is to spot things that would be grist for the funny mill. In some respects, the heavier subjects are the ones that are most loaded with opportunity because they have the most - you know, the difference between potential and kinetic energy? - they have the most potential energy, so to delve into that gives you the largest combustion, the most interest. I don't mean for the audience. I mean for us. Everyone here is working too hard to do stuff we don't care about.
The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.
Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.