Audience Quotes - Page 21

• It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Real, Play, Host

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• Be prepared to cut your little extra lines that come after a big punchline and move on to the next joke or routine to give your set more punch and crispness. You can keep them in your set, but if the audience applauds your big line, don't do your tag when it dies down, just move on.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Moving, Cutting, Giving

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• I advise treating the studio audience like a nightclub audience because that's the reason you're doing television - to get them to come see you in a nightclub.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Television, Reason, Advise

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• 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 to get the opportunity to laugh at.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Opportunity, Laughing, Veto

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Experience, Fifty, Want

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Two, Giving, Waiting

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• An aspiring comedian must be determined to get to his or her true feelings on a subject and convey that to the audience. Figure out what you're feeling or interested in because the goal is to get the audience interested in what you're interested in. Good stand up comedy is drawing people into your head.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Drawing, People, Goal

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• When I've mentioned things that I thought only happened to me, or thoughts that I felt had only had crossed my mind, the audience response indicated that they seemed to have happened to, or been thought of by many people.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  People, Mind, Response

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• The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Bread, Comedy, Crumbs

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• People wrestle alligators but not once has someone done it without an audience.

  Doug Stanhope

  People, Done, Alligators

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• 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

  Idina Menzel

  Men, Thinking, Two

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• My job is to provide the atmosphere and assistance to the contestants to get them to perform at their very best. And if I'm successful doing that, I will be perceived as a nice guy, and the audience will think of me as being a bit of a star.

  Alex Trebek

  Stars, Jobs, Nice

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• I don't photograph for other people. I love an audience, mind you. Once I've got them there, then I love an audience. Not a big audience, though. I'd rather please ten people I respect than ten million I don't. But I don't play to an audience, I do it for myself.

  Brett Weston

  Play, People, Mind

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• Everybody goes through a lot of the same things, and I talk about those, and that's the key. You have to connect with your audience, and I might take them on a trip with me, tell them I went here and I went there and they'll go with me, you know, to hear the stories.

  Chris Tucker

  Keys, Stories, Might

  "Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 14, 2012.

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• 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 world then when you look out and see the audience is identifying with you.

  Bill Engvall

  Feelings, Looks, World

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• For a short period of time, I was like, I have these jokes and if people get them, they get them. And then eventually, I was like, Oh no. It's absolutely my job to convey to people why what I think is funny, is funny. The whole point of standup is to get the audience to understand your weird point of view.

  Eugene Mirman

  Jobs, Thinking, Views

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• We are entering into an age in which visual language is defined by a dialogue between photographers and audiences. This means not just the democratic posting of images but the democratic interpretation of images.

  Gilles Peress

  Mean, Age, Entering

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• I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• An offended audience member repeating a comedian's act from memory is worse than, literally, anything.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Memories, Comedian, Members

  Twitter post from Jul 11, 2012

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• You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn't work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they 'll fail and it's not the audience's fault for not getting it or loving it.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Dark, Artist, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I see a Latino comic as someone who can only perform for Latino audiences. I cross the board.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Boards, Comic, Crosses

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• I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set.

  Louis C. K.

  Writing, Thinking, Skills

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I can feel how an audience is reacting when I'm on a stage, but when you are on stage, your perception is distorted. That's something you just have to know. It's like pilots that fly at high Gs and they lose, sometimes, consciousness and hand/eye coordination and they just have to know that that's going to happen. They have to be trained to not try to do too much while they are doing that. So when you are on stage, you have to be aware that you are wrong about how it feels a lot of times.

  Louis C. K.

  Eye, Hands, Perception

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• I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all comedy. Words. Thoughts. All thoughts are safe and worth exploring.

  Louis C. K.

  Safe, Limits, Comedy

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• I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Writing, Ideas, Trying

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