It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People are used to us being onstage for a while.
I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning about something or other in the industry, so it was unglamourised and normalised for me from a very young age.
Although I do feel that with a show like ours we ourselves are getting a lot more young listeners at concerts.
I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.
Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.
I do think there are trends in your life once you've been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.
I think I have just always had an awareness that when you go to a premiere and people start cheering and shouting your name and stuff, they are shouting at a perception of you that they have.
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.
After every concert, I greet young people in the lobbies. And I see a huge surge of young people playing music.