Audience Quotes - Page 22

• Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don't do your tag when it dies down, just move on.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Moving, Cutting, Giving

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• Obviously the audience has veto power signified by whether they laugh or not, but you-not them-retain the ultimate power to decide what they're going to get the opportunity to laugh at.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Opportunity, Laughing, Veto

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Experience, Fifty, Want

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• An aspiring comedian must be determined to get to his or her true feelings on a subject and convey that to the audience. Figure out what you're feeling or interested in because the goal is to get the audience interested in what you're interested in. Good stand up comedy is drawing people into your head.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Drawing, People, Goal

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• When I've mentioned things that I thought only happened to me, or thoughts that I felt had only had crossed my mind, the audience response indicated that they seemed to have happened to, or been thought of by many people.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  People, Mind, Response

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• My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.

  Alex Trebek

  Stars, Jobs, Nice

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• I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience. Not a big audience, though. I'd rather please ten people I respect than ten million I don't. But I don't play to an audience, I do it for myself.

  Brett Weston

  Play, People, Mind

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• When you're doing stand-up, you achieve an intimacy with the audience you can't get on TV. There's not a better feeling in the entire world then when you look out and see the audience is identifying with you.

  Bill Engvall

  Feelings, Looks, World

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• For a short period of time, I was like, I have these jokes and if people get them, they get them. And then eventually, I was like, Oh no. It's absolutely my job to convey to people why what I think is funny, is funny. The whole point of standup is to get the audience to understand your weird point of view.

  Eugene Mirman

  Jobs, Thinking, Views

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• An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Memories, Comedian, Members

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2012

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• You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn't work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they 'll fail and it's not the audience's fault for not getting it or loving it.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Dark, Artist, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set.

  Louis C. K.

  Writing, Thinking, Skills

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I can feel how an audience is reacting when I'm on a stage, but when you are on stage, your perception is distorted. That's something you just have to know. It's like pilots that fly at high Gs and they lose, sometimes, consciousness and hand/eye coordination and they just have to know that that's going to happen. They have to be trained to not try to do too much while they are doing that. So when you are on stage, you have to be aware that you are wrong about how it feels a lot of times.

  Louis C. K.

  Eye, Hands, Perception

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• It's a simple and an effective way of getting everyone on the same page, prepared and paying attention to the gag. People just get into that frame of mind of you doing impressions. It can take a minute or two for an audience to catch on when you aren't doing one.

  Frank Caliendo

  Simple, Two, People

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• With basketball, if a guy is having an off night you still can say he's a good athlete. But with a comedian, you see them in front of the wrong audience - and they can look like complete amateurs. It's remarkable.

  Gary Gulman

  Basketball, Athlete, Night

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• I don't come on to seduce the audience. I don't care if everyone laughs. I can't think about that anymore. If there's anything that a lot of experience on stage and a lot of stage time gives you is the confidence to know that it's ok if they're not laughing every second you're up there. Although that's what drives me and I still go too fast a lot of the time.

  Greg Proops

  Confidence, Thinking, Giving

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• I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.

  Godfrey

  Smart, Thinking, Academia

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• I think comedy evolves constantly. I reinvent myself all the time. I always find a way to entertain myself because I truly believe you have to entertain yourself in order to relate it the right way to your audience.

  J. B. Smoove

  Believe, Thinking, Order

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• When you're on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I've done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can't do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can't happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

  J. B. Smoove

  People, Dying, Trying

  "That’s how he dooz it! One-on-One with Comedian JB Smoove". Interview with Sergio Mims, www.ebony.com. April 2, 2012.

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• I came from the Groundlings Theatre in L.A., and there, you're guaranteed to at least try something out in front of an audience. At 'SNL,' only the best stuff gets picked, and it's taught me a very defined language of comedy. You learn the structure of a joke, which is not something I was very good at beforehand.

  Taran Killam

  Theatre, Trying, Stuff

  "Taran Killam on the SNL Christmas Show". Interview with Terron Moore, www.esquire.com. December 20, 2013.

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• What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you. I wanted to find a way to unlock the intensity of that, to recreate that unique perspective, first for the hundreds of people who attended the concert, and eventually for a much larger online audience.

  Chris Milk

  Unique, People, Perspective

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• Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.

  Andres Segovia

  Perfect, Silence, Sometimes

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• ...in the theatre the stage keeps the audience aware of the fictional nature of the action. The reader poring over a magazine, on the other hand, identifies what he sees in the photographs as real.

  Gisele Freund

  Real, Hands, Theatre

  Gisèle Freund (1980). “Photography & Society”

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• Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.

  Joseph Kosuth

  Eye, Looks, Empty

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• To have a blog is to have some portion of your brain assigned to monitoring your audience.

  Jake Lodwick

  Brain, Monitoring, Portions

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