Audience Quote by James Acaster

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…

— Jacob M. Appel

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

— Margaret Cho

I don't know what's funny and what's not so I test out all of my material in front of audiences.

— Daniel Tosh

I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.

— Wallace Shawn

Your audience teaches you how to be funny.

— Woody Allen

As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances being funny.…

— Ed Helms

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

— Rita Rudner

The first condition for comedy is that if you laugh at your own jokes, others won't laugh. You have to say something funny very…

— Saswata Chatterjee

Most jokes are based on surprise. They take advantage of a confusion of language, or a twist in logic, or a contradiction of some…

— Richard Herring

A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh, that's what…

— Alonzo Bodden

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of…

— James Burrows

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

— Norm MacDonald