Audience Quote by Maysoon Zayid

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

Part of standup is being loose and having a good time yourself and that translates to the audience.

— John Mulaney

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

— Johnny Lever

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

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

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

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

— Johnny Vegas

Most of what I like doing in performing is connecting with an audience. What's the point of doing standup if you're not doing that?

— Rose Matafeo

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

It's always been about when I do theater, the audience is just a viewer, not taking part in what's onstage. Whereas if you're doing…

— Jon Glaser

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