Audience Quote by Ted Alexandro

Every comedian feels out an audience. As you're telling jokes, if they're not laughing at this, you change the subject.

— Jackie Mason

When you do comedy in front of an audience, they are the ones who tell you whether it's funny or not and which bits…

— John Cleese

Humour is completed by an audience.

— Matthew Warchus

The audience loves when the comedian talks to them. You're creating inside jokes, which creates a community.

— Wendy Liebman

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

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

— Todd Barry

Your audience teaches you how to be funny.

— Woody Allen

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

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh.

— Jeff Dunham

I think the job of a comedian is to make people laugh, but also challenge them to laugh at things they didn't know they…

— Ricky Gervais

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

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