Audience Quote by Barney Frank

If there's an audience, I think they're going to expect me to be funny. But what if I'm not funny? What if I fail?

— Gene Wilder

Your audience teaches you how to be funny.

— Woody Allen

If the audience knows you can be funny when you want to be, they will be willing to wait for that payoff.

— Bill Cosby

What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that…

— Maggie Carey

The thing is to be brave and move the audience with you, instead of cater to the lowest common denominator, you know, slipping on…

— Mel Brooks

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…

— Dominic Cooper

The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often…

— Larry Charles

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

— Vince Vaughn

Comedy is quite difficult, you have to be able to have fun and portray that sense of fun to the audience watching you.

— Maureen O'Hara

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

— Doug Benson

When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either…

— Rob Riggle

In comedy you feel you need to go back to the theatre every now and again, you feel you need to go back to…

— Mathew Baynton