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

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.

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 out and keep trying.

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.

When I walk out on stage, I don't know who's in the audience. To me, in my little fat skull, the laugh is just the widest demographic you can get.

I'm always trying to make myself laugh. I'm the most enthusiastic audience I'm likely to find, so if it doesn't make me smile then it probably won't work on you. The jokes that only make me shrug get cut.

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 any, in the dialogue.

If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute - I've got to have them.