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Don't limit your audience.

Never treat the audience disrespectfully.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

You have to keep surprising your audience.

On one level, I must never lose touch with my audience. But I must, at some point, stop trying to get everybody to like me, and be true to the thing I think I need to say.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

We're so afraid to lose the audience. Let the audience go.

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

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, they're with me. And that' s been happening.