Audience Quote by Hari Kondabolu

Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to…

— Ken Dodd

My experience tells me that any time you hear people laughing on a sitcom, it's the writers who happen to be closest to the…

— Steven Weber

I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.

— Dave Attell

If you can get the crew to laugh on a show, you know that you're doing something.

— Kevin Clash

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are…

— Tommy Lee Jones

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time…

— Twyla Tharp

There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

— Kelly Bishop

You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough,…

— Peter Stone

In a live setting, the audience is trapped and can't leave. That really makes the audience be with you and laugh more because you're…

— Adam Conover

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their…

— Dick Van Dyke

When you host a show you have to hopefully be funny at the top and set the tone for a really fun evening.

— Amy Poehler

You can make the audience laugh, be funny and sad at the same time.

— Molly Shannon