I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know.
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.
If you can think psychographically and not demographically, you can really target a lot more audiences.
I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.
As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar people in the heart of America, my audience is basically, in the States, an NPR audience. I play college towns in the summer because that's who comes to see me.
The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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've been lucky. I've had this history of having an appeal to more than one type of audience.
I've come to accept who my readers turn out to be, rather than having some sort of demographic target.
My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious.