Audience Quote by John Mulaney

From fear to bonding with the audience to getting more open - that's what standup is. It humanises you.

— Maysoon Zayid

Standup is like shorthand. Every bit must be both brief and profound or the audience will lose interest.

— Johnny Lever

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

— Johnny Vegas

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people…

— Aries Spears

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

— Billy Gardell

Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back.

— Ellen DeGeneres

A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is…

— Zach Galifianakis

I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

— Pauly Shore

I think there's a percentage [of the audience] that don't realize, that don't know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we…

— Tim Allen

Continuing to do stand-up is always a challenge because the audiences and the environments in which you work very often differ.

— Bob Newhart

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more…

— Elayne Boosler

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…

— Bill Engvall