Assessment Quote by Peter Stone

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 audience works as such a mob. They either all laugh or all don't laugh, and, you know, changes from audience to audience.

— Sarah Silverman

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny…

— Joe Rogan

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

— Oliver Goldsmith

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

Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.

— Ted Alexandro

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh.

— Jeff Dunham

Obviously the audience has veto power signified by whether they laugh or not, but you-not them-retain the ultimate power to decide what they're going…

— Franklyn Ajaye

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

— Molly Shannon

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

The one thing that I love about the live audience is the energy level. Like, from the minute of cast introductions, it's just constant…

— Jonathan Sadowski

I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes,…

— Dan Hicks